[olug] unixODBC

Brian Roberson roberson at olug.org
Fri Nov 8 15:56:55 UTC 2002


openoffice does not have built-in support for any sql database engine, only 
odbc connectivity, so if you want to link to any rdbms you must use odbc. 



isql is nifty too ;-)  single interface to any rdbms.



On Friday 08 November 2002 09:01 am, Jonathan Warren wrote:
> Why would you want to connect to postgres or mysql through odbc?  Can you
> connect an access DB through ODBC would be much more interesting.
>
> On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 10:33:20PM -0600, Brian Roberson wrote:
> > Has anyone succesfully used unixODBC to connect to a datasource in
> > openoffice? I just noticed odbc is supported in openoffice, and am about
> > to try to get it working with postgres & mysql, but I figured I would
> > throw it out to see if anyone has done it here... If not, it may turn
> > into a olug presentation ;-)
> >
> >
> >
> > --Brian
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