Re: [dba-dev] Changes to DB are not persistent

2010-12-21 Thread Alex Thurgood
Hi Daniel, How about using commit() or setting up the connection instance as autoCommit ? http://api.openoffice.org/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/sdbc/XConnection.html#commit http://api.openoffice.org/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/sdbc/XConnection.html#setAutoCommit Alex

Re: [dba-dev] CWS dba33m needs testing CAST() problem

2010-12-10 Thread Alex Thurgood
Hi Ocke, all, - Peter Eberlein pet@refofd.verwalt-berlin.de a écrit : Tested the download on Mac OSX SnowLeopard. Seems to work fine for me with the Mysql connector 1.0.0. Alex P.S. One gripe that I do have is that although this installation overwrote my previous OOo user settings,

Re: [dba-dev] CWS dba33m needs testing CAST() problem

2010-12-10 Thread Alex Thurgood
Hi Ocke, - Ocke Janssen ocke.jans...@oracle.com a écrit : PS: We found an issue with select * from table where id in ( 'll',OO') The only way I can get this to run in that latest downloaded version is by removing the single quotes around the values. Alex

Re: [dba-dev] Re: CAST() no longer working with OOO 330m16

2010-12-09 Thread Alex Thurgood
Hi Ocke, - Ocke Janssen ocke.jans...@oracle.com a écrit : I just have to set the issue to wontfix. :-( The problem seems to be the database. Even with odbctest I get the same results = error and I tested a StarOffice 9.2 which is equal to OOo 3.2, same error as in OOo 3.2.1 and 3.3.

Re: [dba-dev] Re: CAST() no longer working with OOO 330m16

2010-12-09 Thread Alex Thurgood
Hi Ocke, - Ocke Janssen ocke.jans...@oracle.com a écrit : As I mentioned, CAST works for me with OOo 3.2.1. It also works for me in LibreOffice (just so you know 3.3 rc1, not sure which OOo_m that is based on). One more interesting thing when executing select CAST('2001-01-01' as

Re: [dba-dev] Re: CAST() no longer working with OOO 330m16

2010-12-08 Thread Alex Thurgood
Hi Fernand, Done, but whether it will make any difference ? Its not a blocker because it doesn't cause a crash, or lose your data, but it is surely a regression from 3.2. Alex - Fernand Vanrie s...@pmgroup.be a écrit : Alexander , It sould be good to send this message also to

Re: [dba-dev] Re: CAST() no longer working with OOO 330m16

2010-12-08 Thread Alex Thurgood
Fernand, Well I also use EXTRACT(), but have found that I still have to CAST the type. If I just use the DATE/TIME functions on their own, the results are inconsistent across the months, especially when adding or subtracting. I haven't kept any of my old queries that did direct application of

Re: [dba-dev] How to set a MySQL TIMESTAMP to null

2010-06-25 Thread Alex Thurgood
Hi Fernand, oStatement.setNull(1, ) for a textfield works fine ( = long SQLType others) oStatement.setNull(2, ) for a timestamp returns 00-00-00 00:00:00 and not the Mysql (null) i tried SQLtype 0 also with same results Is this not a bug in that version (which one,

Re: [dba-dev] ODBC from AS/400, results dependent on server version

2010-03-25 Thread Alex Thurgood
Hi, Querying the V5R3 server, I see the expected results from the V5R3 server in both both Base (direct entry of SQL) and Calc (the Data Source Browser and the spreadsheet). However, from the V5R2 server, the three columns derived with char() show no useful information: in the result of

Re: [dba-dev] postgres-sdbc for mac os x

2010-03-24 Thread Alex Thurgood
Hi Christoph, Hi, I am looking for a way to use the postgres-sdbc module on darwin/mac os x (if it supports kerberos authentication, which I assume since it is using the postgresql client library, right?). However the packages on

Re: [dba-dev] Please welcome the newest member of the Base QA Team - Zoltan Reizinger

2010-02-18 Thread Alex Thurgood
Congrats to both Drew and Zoltan in their respective new/continued roles ! Alex - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@dba.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@dba.openoffice.org

[dba-dev] Re: [dba-features] new/DEV300m42 : SRB ReportWizard supports binary field types

2009-02-27 Thread Alex Thurgood
lars.langh...@sun.com a écrit : Hi Lars, *Description* - It is possible to select BINARY, VARBINARY, LONGVARBINARY datatypes in the Report Wizard. This will insert ImageControls instead of formatted fields. The images will be set 4cm high. Pictures will scale down to this size.

Re: [dba-dev] 64-bit version of the PostgreSQL SDBC driver ? Pretty please ?

2008-08-25 Thread Alex Thurgood
Emmanuel Charpentier a écrit : Hi, I have used the PostgreSQL SDBC driver for a while ...on x86 machines. I currently use a new laptop with an Intel Core2 Duo. Consequently, I installed Ubuntu Hardy amd64. This distribution has a openoffice.org-sdbc-postgresql package, which is 0.7.5, and no

Re: [dba-dev] postgresql-sdbc-0.7.6

2008-08-15 Thread Alex Thurgood
Joerg Budischewski a écrit : Hi Joerg, I'd like to announce the availability of the version 0.7.6 of the native postgresql driver for OpenOffice.org for windows and linux x86. What would it need to get it to work with Mac OSX (assuming that is at all possible) ? I have a Tiger OSX OOo Aqua

[dba-dev] Re: [dba-users] OOo QA - database confirm issues beyond irc

2008-05-07 Thread Alex Thurgood
Christoph Lukasiak a écrit : Hi Chris, Unfortunately I shall be out of the office on travel all of that week, so I can't count myself in this time. :-( Alex - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

Re: [dba-dev] Failures saving data to MySQL tables from OOo form

2008-03-28 Thread Alex Thurgood
Bob Kline a écrit : Hi Bob, I'm having a number of problems with getting OpenOffice's Base to do the right thing with this table, but the most frustrating is that when I create a form based on the table, then go to insert a new row using that form, I get an error message complaining that

Re: [dba-dev] Re: Base

2008-03-20 Thread Alex Thurgood
Seale a écrit : Hi Seale, I just downloaded open office and just love it so far! I have been wanting one system that works for everything so I am so glad to have found you. I just bought an iMac in the last 4 months so I am trying to get up to speed on it, but its address book is just not

Re: [dba-dev] AWT trees

2007-11-06 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le Saturday 03 November 2007 21:22:48 Ariel Constenla-Haile, vous avez écrit : Hi Ariel, Can I change the status from UNCONFIRMED to NEW? I think we simple users can not do this, am I wrong? Well, this makes me think about what I did wrong with issue

Re: [dba-dev] Re: Off Topic question - Who owns tools.bas

2007-10-17 Thread Alex Thurgood
On Wednesday 17 October 2007 07:29:31 Andrew Jensen wrote: Hi Drew, Darn MSAccess export files with booleans ( 0,1) and text fields can looks like: 2145,0,0,0,1,Some text, and more text / all one field,0,0,2.15 That damned embedded comma..you know. Even better, this is a valid export from

Re: [dba-dev] Database Recovery

2007-08-30 Thread Alex Thurgood
On Thursday 30 August 2007 04:04:12 Barbara Duprey wrote: Hi Barbara, Yes, I really, really want to go to 2.3, but the site is still offering 2.2.1 as the latest stable release and I'm not sure a development build is what I want. So I seem to have these choices: stick with 2.0.4 until

Re: [dba-dev] Database Recovery

2007-08-29 Thread Alex Thurgood
On Wednesday 29 August 2007 15:53:22 Barbara Duprey wrote: Hi Barbara, When I was using the linked .dbf and this happened, I think it may be why my data got so royally messed up. I suspect it was recovering by using some data buffer it had hanging around, and with no primary key, I believe

Re: [dba-dev] Comments on Issue 80426

2007-08-22 Thread Alex Thurgood
On Tuesday 21 August 2007 22:57:01 Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany wrote: Hi Frank, What I suppose the submitter of the issue ran into (unfortunately his description wasn't clear here) is a NOT NULL field with a server-side default - in this case, OOo wants to force him to enter

Re: [dba-dev] Updating from Query with Join

2007-08-20 Thread Alex Thurgood
On Monday 20 August 2007 19:14:50 Barbara Duprey wrote: One real problem, though -- I don't seem to be able to update from any query with a join. The keys of both tables are in the data, and I'm only trying to update in the Violations table. As long as I don't have a join, no problem.

Re: [dba-dev] Base excruciatingly slow

2007-06-26 Thread Alex Thurgood
On Thursday 21 June 2007 01:32:54 Martin d'Anjou wrote: Hi Martin, I started using OO Base with ODBC and MySQL. It was slow to the point of being unusable, and I almost gave up. However, I found that if I use the IP address of the database server rather than the hostname, things go much

Re: [dba-dev] No saving of form data when inserted into controls with api-commands

2007-05-20 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le dimanche 20 mai 2007 00:MM, Marc Santhoff a écrit : Hi, But I'd be very pleased if someone would take the task of making XML snippet format out of the posting (Alex?). I can certainly have a look, but I've never used the snippet creator as yet, probably for the same reasons as you ;-)

Re: [dba-dev] No saving of form data when inserted into controls with api-commands

2007-05-18 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le vendredi 18 mai 2007 18:MM, Marc Santhoff a écrit : Marc, It's Code-giving day today. ;) You have saved me countless hours of trawling through the API, a huge thank you Please post any additions you make, not all possible cases are catched by the code! You're on !! Alex

Re: [dba-dev] Confusion in MySql driver limitations Base 2.0.n

2007-05-16 Thread Alex Thurgood
Hi Mike, But MySQL does support relationships, so is this error mal formed? Has this been solved and I'm doing something wrong in driver permissions? Is there a workaround besides hard-coding updates by Macro or other? Is there a solution planned in the future, if there is no present

Re: [dba-dev] Confusion in MySql driver limitations Base 2.0.n

2007-05-16 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le samedi 28 avril 2007 20:MM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Doh !!! Forget my last e-mail Mike, didn't look at the OP until after I sent it - of course, you are one and the same. Sorry :-) Alex - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [dba-dev] MySQL and Open Office

2006-10-06 Thread Alex Thurgood
posta uno wrote: Hi, I have to create a database system and I’d like to use Open Office insted of Microsoft Office. For my Db I will have a Server,(probably Linux running on server), and at least 10 Pc that must work in a network.They all will be linked to server. Same as in my office.

[dba-dev] Base and sucessive installs of OOo

2006-05-08 Thread Alex Thurgood
Hi all, There is a very annoying, hmmm, well, I suppose you could call it a feature, but I call it a bug ;-) when you install or upgrade OOo over a previous installation. This bug is that if you agree to having your data copied over (as do most sane people who've carried out personal

Re: [dba-dev] report writer, crystal reports, etc

2005-08-02 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le mardi 02 août 2005 à 10:32 +0200, Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany a écrit : Hi Frank, How would a collaboration look like? OOo currently does not ship with perl, nor does it have a UNO binding for perl [1], so how would OOo feed your application with data? Are you interested in

Re: [dba-dev] report writer, crystal reports, etc

2005-08-02 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le mardi 02 août 2005 à 13:46 +0200, Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany a écrit : Hi Frank, Interesting. Do you know how they work? Do they create/manipulate the mere files, or do they really connect to OOo and manipulate the docs by using OOo? AFAIK, they merely create/manipulate

Re: [dba-dev] Small query about RESOLVED/FIXED issues

2005-02-14 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le lundi 14 février 2005 à 21:51 +1100, Justin Clift a écrit : Hi all, If I've come across a bug in OOo2 Base 680m77, and find an existing bug for it in IZ (#42033) marked as RESOLVED/FIXED (680m75), does that means it should be fixed already for m77 and I need to report it's still

Re: [dba-dev] Re: [Marketing] Number of Connections for OOo Base

2005-02-03 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le jeudi 03 février 2005 à 08:22 +0100, Ocke Janssen a écrit : I'm sorry. I haven't made a list of what Access can what hsqldb can't and vice versa. But if you want to make one, we would place them on our website :-) More information about hsqldb can be found here www.hsqldb.org. Well