Neale Banks wrote: > Should we presume you haven't noticed the, admittedly not widely > publicised, Database Access features of OpenOffice.org? You can use odbc > or jdbc (I can only vouch for the latter, on Linux) to connect to the > mysql server from within OOo. "Should" work just fine on your XP box. > > To get started, open a new spreadseet (or any other kind of document) and > select View->Data Sources (or F4). Once you've defined the database > connection and the query your original question reduces to dragging the > query result and dropping it into the spreadsheet :-)
Hmmm, I've never quite been able to get there (00o 1.1.0): I'm able to connect to MySQL (easily) but I get a selection of tables for the wrong database. So close! Any hints? A while back I actually splurged and spent $5.50 on a Perl program someone wrote to do this [http://www.churm.com/konvertr/index.php] and it works just fine - writing to Excel. Very quick, beats point and click. I guess I should have written something like that myself, but it's hard to beat 5 bucks, and I just could not write such a program fast enough to make doing it myself a better deal (and if one writes all the tools along the way, one may lose sight of the goal). Eric Pederson Eric at zomething dot com P.S. I also wanted something to quick summarize my field definitions across the database for review, so I made a little script in Python which produces a HTML summary of the table definitions. I find it helpful documentation. http://www.zomething.com/describe_MySQL.htm You need Python on your machine to run it. http://www.python.org Feedback invited. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
