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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Database Work
From:       Martin Konold <konold () alpha ! tat ! physik ! uni-tuebingen ! de>
Date:       1999-03-29 8:40:04
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On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Christian Bucher wrote:

> the mysql server and choose a database. In fact thats not very much,
> but a database frontend is slight different to the rest of koffice
> applications (for example you don't open a file you connect to a
> server).

Well, with unix everything is a file. In contrast with kde everything is
an url. What about handling connections to db servers similiar to ftp
connections? AFAIK Oracle does it the other way round. Everything is a
database (including filesystems) ;-)

Yours,
-- martin

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