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NeoBase
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NeoOffice Base allows you to either connect to an external database (MySQL, dBase, Calc, etc.) or to create an "embedded database" using the included HSQL database engine. In addition to entering and editing data, you can create Queries, Views, and Forms, as well as access any registered datasource in Writer and Calc documents.
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Tips and Hints in the Wiki
Note that some of the pages are "stubs" consisting mostly of links to discussions on trinity.
Additional tips can be found on the New Articles Needed page, which contains links to stub pages and/or threads in trinity that need to be developed into full blown articles.
Connecting to and Importing from Other Databases
- Configuring MySQL using JDBC and NeoOffice 2.x
- Configuring MySQL using ODBC
- Configuring postgresql
- Configuring FileMaker Pro
- dbf and MS Access tips
Other Base Tips in the Wiki
- Using a Calc spreadsheet as a data source
- Importing Data from Address Book
- Using the Mail Merge Wizard (in Writer, but using Base datasources)
- To Base and Back Again A new series of Base tutorials in the wiki.
External Tips
- Adding a Button to Search on a Form
- importing a large csv file into a base table For files too large to bring through via a Calc document, or where field type definitions do not set properly.
- OOo Basic crash course: Creating charts with Base and Calc
Documentation, Tutorials, etc.
User Guides and Documentation
User Guides and Other "General" Documentation
- OpenOffice User Guide Chap 7
- OpenOffice.org wiki "main page" for the Base component.
- PDF Article on Advanced Report Techniques, Including SQL-Based Calculated Fields on Reports. By Solveig Haugland
- OOo Base Primer A brief overview of Base, with detailed information on connecting to MySQL.
Definitions
- Built-in Functions and Stored Procedures that can be used in Queries.
- List of Data Types
Using Macros in Base
- OOBasic Database Dev.pdf Covers Statement, ResultSet, & RowSet Services by Roberto Benitez.
- PDF on Designing Forms, Mostly devoted to form related macros, but it also covers using the Form Wizard and Design View to create forms. By Roberto Benitez
- Andrew Pitonyak on using Macros with Base
HSQLDB and SQL Documentation
- HSQLDB User Guide (HSQLDB is the underlying database engine in Base)
- Good guide on SQL, Suggested by the HSQLDB User Guide
- Introduction to SQL
Books
- Books on database design from OOoForum.org
Forums
- Probably the oldest forum OpenOffice.org users. It is well frequented.
- A newer OpenOffice.org forum. Many of the regulars also frequent ooforum.org, so double posting is not reccommended.
Tutorials
- A new series of tutorials being written by one of NeoWiki's editors. Follows the creation of a database for tracking birding trips and sightings.
- SheepDogGuides a collection of smaller Base tutorials
- Dai's Tutorials for Base video tutorials
- OOo Base Primer
- Base tutorial in the OOoforum
- step-by-step construction of a small relational database for employees, with some advanced concepts like forms toward the end
- Visual tutorial for Base from InPics
- Two-part introduction to Base for database beginners: Part 1, Part2
- The simplest way to make databases in OpenOffice.org An 3 page article by Solveig Haugland.
Miscellaneous
- includes lots of good links to documentation and tutorials
Database Examples
- Gemstone. A double entry accounting system.
- ArtDatabase. For use in a sculpture artists' gallery.
- Inventory Database at sourceforge.net.
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