[dba-dev] Re: And now what?

2010-03-02 Thread Andreas Saeger
Drew Jensen wrote: Hi, Ok - so 50% of the developer team is now gone. Anyone want to take a crack at where that leaves us? Come on now - everyone has had a day to think about it. Drew Drop embedded HSQLDB and make the rest working for experienced database developers (macros forms) and

[dba-dev] Re: And now what?

2010-03-02 Thread Andreas Saeger
Fernand Vanrie wrote: Andreas , Your proposal is maybe a bit to drastic, but OO can, indeed, been a ideal frontend for any DB, included a Oracle Base :-), I hope they reed this dispared crys and gives us some exctra developer power. Yes, reduce Base to a better frontend. Drop that

[dba-dev] Re: Form Tablecontrol event: how to obtain column, row and other information

2009-03-18 Thread Andreas Saeger
Hi, Sometimes the perspective makes a difference. A table control bundles several types of other controls. For each bundled control (column) you see one instance of the same control model per record with one record beeing the current record. In design mode you can change the type of a cell to

[dba-dev] Re: OOo 3.0 is released and do you use charts in reports? Comments are welcome.

2008-10-17 Thread Andreas Saeger
Ocke Janssen wrote: Moin, When you use charts in reports I would like to get any kind of feedback, comments or even rants :-) What work and what doesn't work? What should be better or is the feature itself useless. (I don't hope so ;-) So your opinion is asked for. Best regards, Ocke PS:

[dba-dev] Re: problems importing MSA files into OO Base

2007-09-06 Thread Andreas Saeger
Dinbandhu wrote: 1. How to change the name of an existing column? Example for given table Table1 having field ID to be renamed to ID_New ALTER TABLE Table1 ALTER COLUMN ID RENAME TO ID_New I tried to double click on the column title window, but it doesn't give me a cursor to change the

[dba-dev] Re: problems importing MSA files into OO Base

2007-09-05 Thread Andreas Saeger
Swarup, Please notice the P.S. at the bottom before you continue. Dinbandhu wrote: [...] Hi Andreas, [...] 1. I think I was able to understand and follow each step of your instructions. And in the end, the table was made. Indeed, all the columns and rows are there, correctly labeled. And

[dba-dev] Re: problems importing MSA files into OO Base

2007-08-31 Thread Andreas Saeger
Hello, Swarup I've added a detailed step-by-step instruction how to import mdb via spreadsheet to Base. Have a look at the users.dba list and give a try. Good luck, Andreas - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

[dba-dev] Re: problems importing MSA files into OO Base

2007-08-31 Thread Andreas Saeger
Swarup, I'm not a developer, so I can hardly tell if things have to be like that. I believe that Base has started too late. Until now it is the least mature component in this office suite, although a rock stable, reliable database could be the most attractive component to serve all other