Greetings, I am looking at "Base To-Do/Joins in dBase queries" <http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Base_To-Do/Joins_in_dBase_queries>. The page suggests extending three database drivers to support sql statements of the form "SELECT ... FROM TABLE1, TABLE2, ... TABLEn ...".
However I have also stumbled across issues 42464 "[RFE] allow to link tables from different sources into one database file" <http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/long_list.cgi?issuelist=42464> and 83660 "Cannot do join query on tables from different .odb documents" <http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=83660>. These issues have status NEW and UNCONFIRMED respectively, which I take to mean that the requests are not necessarily good ideas. I see the following similarities among these three items: (*) Each requirement is to bring together into one result set data from sources which OOo cannot currently bring together. (*) OOo must be able itself to join rows, as no one database engine will necessarily have access to all the needed data. (Is it the case now that OOo always leaves it up to the underlying database engines to join tables?). This suggests to me the possibility of a new driver to integrate data from the drivers already available. Is this idea worth thinking about? Thank you for your attention. Terry. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
