On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 09:56 -0400, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: > Hi Tony, > > The suggestion that you look at the documentation is generally based on > the assumption that a person has not done so. Now, it is known that you > have done so.... Sooo.... > > I have done some poking around with database stuff, and I have not found > any reference to MS SQL Server in my travels though the database access > stuff. Now, based on the beta for the next release of OOo, I see that > the following are supported: > > HSQLDB > Adabas D > ADO > dBase > JDBC > LDAP Address Book > Microsoft Access > Microsoft Outlook Address Book > Microsoft Windows Address Book > Mozilla Address Book > MySQL > ODBC > Oracle JDBC > Spreadsheet > Text File > > > An interesting thing that is NOT mentioned in this particular list, is > that MySQL is supported using either JDBC or ODBC, but a direct access > method is NOT supported. As such, I speculate that you probably need to > use ODBC, JDBC, or ADO. I can not find your original post, so I am not > certain how familure you are with these aspects of the OOo database > stuff. I have only used database access using the beta software, which > is perhaps not really ready for production use, but it continues to > become more stable. I have not noticed instabilities under Linux, but > under Windows, it seems to crash on its own sometimes; I think that it > happens while performing some kind of checkpoint save. > > Just some tidbits that will hopefully point you in the right direction. > I do not have MS SQL Server, so I can not test any of these things, but > I can perhaps provide information on general connection information. If > I do nto notice your message and respond on list, send me a direct email > and remind me to answer (My wife keeps me overly busy it seems.) >
Good answer. Still I still think that since MS SQL server is an SQL based RDBMS that the comment in http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/data_source/link_tablehtml/link.html about MS SQL server using ODBC should is a good reference and is bascically what I said to the OP. That is that MS SQL server is similar enough to MySQL that any methods used for MySQL should work equally well with MS SQL server. So I ask, how long did it take for you to do the research? When I saw your answer, I realized it took time that you might have invested better in pleasing the spousal unit :-) So I took a few minutes to use google to look for MS SQL server info using the following search string, 'openoffice.org AND "MS SQL server"' and got Results 1 - 50 of about 5,590 for openoffice.org AND "MS SQL server". Of the first twenty or so there were many direct references. Further Chapter 7 or the User Guide does discuss using ODBC, JDBC and ADO to connect to existing databases. -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
