I think the simple answer to your question ("Is this the same in LO") is "yes". But, as others have suggested, it is because you haven't quite got the right way of looking at it.
Using a database rather than a spreadsheet allows you to group things according to the content of the data rather than where it is. With a database you can pull out any of subset of your data by selecting a group according to one of it's unique factors, for example "select all phone numbers from people in the advanced group" (for example) because you have a field in your data for "advanced group", not because all those people are in a separate file. I've worked on large databases written by so-called professionals which used tables to separate data, and it is almost always just slower and more complicated than arranging the data better. I'd guess from some of the things you've said in your last mesage that you've read Mariano Casanova's Step by Step guide to Base. It has a very good section on organising data that I think will make your life much easier. In general it looks like Base (either LO or OOO) only accesses one database at a time. You probably want to stop thinking so much about "files" since the concept doesn't help very much in most of the context of what you want to do. As a last note, I'm using a MySQL backend under Fedora and no, it's not fast. I'll look into why, but I wonder if it's the JSQL interface too. Regards Mark Stanton One small step for mankind... -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted