On 05/25/2012 07:16 AM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > I have been attempting to send this posting for a while, and have only > recently noticed that the list does not accept attachments. This has > (apparently) caused it to be silently rejected. I have appended what > had been attached to the end of this posting. > > Sorry for the delay. > > On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 14:40 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: >> ... the database doesn't look like what I had expected it to: sqlite >> databases contain within themselves the names and data types of all >> the entries, but when libreOffice opens the database, there is no such >> data visible. Am I missing something. A dump of the database using >> "$ sqlite3 <archive>.sdb .dump" looks fine. Is this what I should expect, >> or is something wrong, or am I missing something? On Tue, 2012-05-22 > > On Tue, 22 May 2012 at 00:43 +0200, Andreas Säger wrote: >> Am 21.05.2012 23:40, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: >> > >> >blah >> > >> >> Ask your question on a SQLite forum with some _technical_ information >> about your operating system, SQLite version of the creating application, >> driver version, configuration file, connection URL of the client (Base >> menu:Edit>Database>Properties). > > Wow! This is enough to singe my beard. Nevertheless I am grateful for > all replies, even beard singeing ones. > > I fear that I put in too much technical detail, rather than too little. > As you see, I am a complete newbie to LibreOffice base (oobase), and am > only trying to find out whether I have succeeded in getting oobase to > open my database properly. I don't think a posting to an sqlite forum > would be useful, since this is really a question about oobase. > > If oobase has connected properly to the database, it is useless for my > purpose and I will give up on it and do what needs done with a bunch of > shell scripts. If oobase has not opened the database properly, I will > persevere. > > Here is the technical info that Mr. Säger desires: > > All my systems run Fedora-16. The database was generated on an i686 > system. LibreOffice runs on an x86_64 system. The database is > contained in a file named wview-archive.sdb generated on the i686 > system and copied to the x86_64 system. > > The database was generated by wview, which can be downloaded at > http://www.wviewweather.com/ > My running version of wview is accessible (in case you want to know > the weather here) at: > http://oaklandweather.no-ip.org/index.html/ > The archive file is not visible from the web, but extracts from it > are at: > http://oaklandweather.no-ip.org/index.html/Archive > The version of sqlite is included in > sqlite-devel-3.7.7.1-1.fc16.<......>.rpm > The library is: > /usr/lib/libsqlite3.so.0.8.6 > The drivers are in: > unixODBC-2.2.14-13.fc15.x86_64
You might want to use a GUI configure tool. On debian it is unixodbc-bin - Graphical tools for ODBC management and browsing $ ODBConfig Makes it much easier to configure. On Fedora I think it might be unixODBC-gui-qt <https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/list/?searchwords=*odbc*> > and as specified in its initialization file (which follows) > $ cat ~/.odbc > [ODBC Data Sources] > mysqlitedb=SQLite > > [mysqlitedb] > Driver=/usr/lib64/libsqlite3odbc.so > Description=My SQLite test database > Database=/home/jonrysh/src/wview/archive/nullWindSpeed/wview-archive.sdb > # optional lock timeout in milliseconds > Timeout=2000 My initial tests (successful as I can see all the date in the tables) used the places.sqlite files for Firefox & SeaMonkey. (They are easy to look at with an sqlite viewer to verify). I also have the old microsoft Nwind.mdb as well. Mine is installed on Ubuntu/Debian - (I'd need to fire up Fedora in a VM to test that distro). Here is my .odbc.ini file (configured with OBDConfig): $ cat /home/gl/.odbc.ini [SeaMonkeyPlaces.sqlite] Description = SQLite3 Driver = SQLite3 Database = /home/gl/.mozilla/seamonkey/<snipped>.default/places.sqlite Timeout = 100000 StepAPI = No ShortNames = No NoCreat = No SyncPragma = NORMAL LoadExt = [NWTest] Description = mdbtools Driver = mdbtools Database= /home/gl/Documents/MyDocuments/Nwind.mdb [PlacesFirefox] Description = SQLite3 Driver = SQLite3 Database = /home/gl/.mozilla/firefox/<snipped>.default/places.sqlite Timeout = 100000 StepAPI = No ShortNames = No NoCreat = No SyncPragma = NORMAL LoadExt = Note the difference in the SQLite drivers (I simply use use SQLite3). I'll give your database a try this weekend & also try to find my notes/links on how I got mine working (should be a post in this list IIRC). > The start of a dump of the database is appended to this message. > I.e. the output of > $ sqlite3 archive.sdb .dump > > If anyone else wants to know more about my struggles with oobase and > sqlite, email me or post to the list. > > All the best - jon .... -- 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
