[CentOS] Re: SSH, SCP connections to remote MySQL Database using OpenOffice Possible?

[Matt Hyclak]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 10:33:37AM -0400, Therese Trudeau enlightened us:
> > Sounds like an OOo problem, then. When I briefly tried testing it, there was
> > a couple of driver options to connect to MySQL, you might try using the one
> > you're not (IIRC one was ODBC and the other was JDBC).
> 
> Ah HA!  That might be the problem, I'm using the JDBC driver and I don't have the
> ODBC driver installed.  Do you know where i could download the ODBC driver?
> 
> Or, is the ODBC driver the same as the sql-connector-java-5.0.8 driver?  That one
> I do have; I set up OpenOffice to point to that one too as I did for the JDBC Driver.
> 

In a phrase: I have no idea :-)

It was just something I noticed when messing around with it. I've never
actually had a need to hook OOo to a database. Asking on a OOo list/forum
might be more fruitful.

Matt

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