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Rachel Harding
07/12/02 01:14 pm

        To:     Phil Driscoll <phil@dialsolutions.co.uk>
        cc:
        Subject:        Re: [Wylug-help] jdbc

Hi Phil,
I'm afraid that JDBC is literally a Java based API for database
connectivity.   It is only really used by java developers and doesn't have
any nice GUI like ODBC.  Architecturally it is similar as it provides the
"Glue" between your code and the native database but it isn't that useful
if you're not going to apply it to Java code.

Having said that if you want to connect to mySQL from OpenOffice is may be
possible with ODBC.  I found a PDF here:

http://www.unixodbc.org/doc/OOoMySQL.pdf

Hope this helps!
Rach
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Rachel Harding
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Phil Driscoll <phil@dialsolutions.co.uk>
Sent by: wylug-help-admin@wylug.org.uk
07/12/02 01:34 pm

        To:     Frank Shute <frank@esperance-linux.co.uk>
        cc:     Wylug Help <wylug-help@wylug.org.uk>
        Subject:        Re: [Wylug-help] jdbc


On Saturday 07 December 2002 10:07 am, Frank Shute wrote:
> If you haven't done any Java then I'd really recommend a book,
> & certainly if you haven't done any OO programming.
>
> I'd recommend `Understanding Object-oriented programming with Java'
> auth: Budd pub: Addison Wesley.
All I want to do is connect OpenOffice.org to a database (actually, what I
want to do is help non technical people in schools do this) - so
programming
is out of the question. They already know they can click a few bottons to
get
ODBC going, so I've got to make it look as easy as that!

On Monday we will install JREs on some client machines and try to get
things
going.

I'll report back.

Cheers
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Phil Driscoll

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