Re: Use MySQL with Microsoft Office

[Jigal van Hemert]

From: "Patrick Connolly"
> Somewhere about Wed, 09-Mar-2005 at 03:02PM +0100 (give or take), Jigal
van Hemert wrote:
>
> |> From: "Curtis Maurand"
> |> > Using ODBC, however, you can link Access tables to MySQL tables and
use
> |> > Access as the front end to MySQL.  It works very nicely.
> |>
> |> Using ODBC you can access MySQL from OpenOffice.org (which has an
> |> Access-like frontend built in), using ODBC and MS Jet engine (standard
with
> |> recent Windows versions) you can access and edit Access databases
(*.mdb)
> |> with OpenOffice.org.
>
> but only with Windoze, is it not?  I assume it's dependent on the OS
> having the Jet engine.  I'd be very interested to know if anyone has
> done an equivalent to that in Linux.

Google is wonderful in this regard:

linux/odbc/mdb:
http://bryanmills.net:8086/archives/2003/11/microsoft-access-database-using-linux-and-php/

linux/odbc/mdb/openoffice.org:
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=17403
...and the rest at...
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&newwindow=1&safe=off&q=linux+odbc+mdb+openoffice&btnG=Search

Regards, Jigal.