Re: [tdf-discuss] LO Base Enhancements

2014-08-06 Thread Manfred Usselmann
Am 28.07.2014 22:47, schrieb Cor Nouws: Hi Nigel, Nigel Verity wrote on 28-07-14 21:58: [...] HSQLDB seems to be powerful in terms of its support for complex SQL execution, but it is relatively slow and inefficient when there is a large number of records. Indeed that has been noticed. As from

Re: [tdf-discuss] LO Base Enhancements

2014-08-05 Thread Fernand Vanrie
Wolfgang Keller schreef op 05/08/2014 12:05: +1 we use the native mysql connector and macro's + dialogs + writer+ calc for having a complet CRM and SRM platform with +100 users working in the office and at home (VPN connections) only using LO and a MySQL server. greetz Fernand I can´tjud

Re: [tdf-discuss] LO Base Enhancements

2014-08-05 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> I can´tjudge whether your idea is good or not. But I know that there > are around the worldonly two or three developers for base. Pity because Base is (could be?) imho actually *the* "killer" component of LO. For everything else there are other free solutions. In fact I see the rest of LO (Cal

Re: [tdf-discuss] LO Base Enhancements

2014-07-29 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 07/29/2014 12:06 AM, Terrence Enger wrote: With respect to dynamic column typing in SQLite, On Mon, 2014-07-28 at 20:34 -0400, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: I think that this is intentional, so, I don't think it is actually broken. I never bothered to investigate the motivation for it. Cer

Re: [tdf-discuss] LO Base Enhancements

2014-07-28 Thread Terrence Enger
With respect to dynamic column typing in SQLite, On Mon, 2014-07-28 at 20:34 -0400, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: > I think that this is intentional, so, I don't think it is actually > broken. I never bothered to investigate the motivation for it. Certainly intentional. Indeed, the web site for

Re: [tdf-discuss] LO Base Enhancements

2014-07-28 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 07/28/2014 07:32 PM, Terrence Enger wrote: A big downside of Sqlite is its dynamic typing, a.k.a. advisory typing. IMO, this is simply broken. Terry. I think that this is intentional, so, I don't think it is actually broken. I never bothered to investigate the motivation for it. I find

Re: [tdf-discuss] LO Base Enhancements

2014-07-28 Thread Terrence Enger
On Mon, 2014-07-28 at 20:58 +0100, Nigel Verity wrote: > Hi Thank you for your interest in Base. > > Sqlite has a large and well-organised development team. It performs > really well even with very large datasets. I feel that making Sqlite > the default database for LO Base in place of HSQLDB w

Re: [tdf-discuss] LO Base Enhancements

2014-07-28 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Nigel, Nigel Verity wrote on 28-07-14 21:58: > [...] > HSQLDB seems to be powerful in terms of its support for complex SQL > execution, but it is relatively slow and inefficient when there is a > large number of records. Indeed that has been noticed. As from LibreOffice 4.2.0 in the experiment

Re: [tdf-discuss] LO Base Enhancements

2014-07-28 Thread Jochen Schiffers
Hi Nigel, thx für your thoughts/proposal. I can´tjudge whether your idea is good or not. But I know that there are around the worldonly two or three developers for base. It is "inhuman" to demand major changes of these few people. We must be grateful that these eliminate the bugs. Regards