Hello Andreas, I was starting to reply to Mariano when you email arrived and I had to stop and look at the pictures - you know I love pictures.
Very nice. Almost correct...LOL...really close to be so. First - Mariano has decided to concentrate his tutorial on the embedded model only, and I would agree with him. An intermediate tutorial is needed for the Base package, and it can have plenty of detail with Queries, Forms and Reports that is knowledge useful for any of the data source types, without further adding the complications of the different engines and drivers. The idea of a decent overview of how the base odb file is used in those different configurations is however another missing piece. Your pictures might make for a good starting foundation for a wiki article on the subject. *smile*..you know the Base guide is in the works on the wiki. Anyway - if you don't mind I will take your ods file and make a few changes and send it back to your, or post it up somewhere for you and others. Like I said it really is close to what is going on, the actual drivers for instance are never stored in the odb file. This is true for the embedded database as well as for all the others. But first back to the original email response and then I'll take a few minutes and see how badly I can munge up your drawing.. Glad you did that actually, it needed to be put down like that somewhere. On 10/2/07, Andreas Saeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I would like to see in a Base tutorial is a rough description of > database documents (*.odb) as containers, storing connections to various > types of sources together with it's own queries, forms and reports. > Embedded hsqldb appears to me as the exception to the rule that odb does > not store any table-data at all. > > The first contact with dialog File>New>Database... is rather confusing > when you don't know about odb-containers. > [1] "new database" > [2] "open existing" > [3] "connect to existing" > The first always creates the native embedded type. The second is > basically the same as File>Open...(*.odb). The third option may require > some extra knowlege (o/jdbc) and you get a new odb-document anyway, > although you did not ask for a "Base database". > > A first overview should also include the concept of registration. > > Writing about queries there should be a short description on "direct sql > mode". > > Sometimes a picture can tell more than words. The following draft > illustrates my limited skills in both components Base and Draw: > http://www.mediafire.com/?dyozwotvd1y > > Something like this, you know. To be edited by a more knowingly Base > expert, leaving out most of the internal details. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
