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------- Additional comments from cjrho...@openoffice.org Fri Dec 31 13:57:42 +0000 2010 ------- I have to strongly (very strongly) agree with tony_52. I am a college professor who has taught Access for fifteen years (and taught dBase, rBase, Oracle, and SQL prior to that). I am currently writing a book on Access and Open Office Base (my fifth book - others are best selling textbooks used in over 250 colleges around the country). I was HOPING that I could replace Access with Open Office Base in my Office Applications course at the college (and my next book), but without this very basic functionality (especially crosstab queries, which are ESSENTIAL to any business person using a database) there is no hope for OO Base to even come close to being in general use by business people. I know all these things are possible with SQL commands, which are the bread and butter of any technologists. But the people who use Access are not technologists - they are business people. They need the menu items to perform the esoteric SQL commands just as Access provides menu items or wizards to perform these tasks. PLEASE consider this request. It will make a HUGE difference in the acceptability of Open Office by any business office in the world. Currently, I can't recommend Open Office to my clients (did I mention I'm the CEO of a consulting firm, too?) or my students because of this deficiency. So - I reiterate Tony's request. Please AT LEAST enable the following types of queries to be created in the Query: Crosstab, Make table, Update, Append, Delete. It may not make a big difference to the technically literate, but since 90% of the population (and 100% of my students) who use computers are not technically literate, we have to accommodate them as well. Thanks for letting me vent. CJ Rhoads CJRhoads at ETMAssociates.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@dba.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@dba.openoffice.org
