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Free database
meanbean
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Hello, can anyone recommend a free database that can be downloaded and used? I've got open office's base but am having real difficulty importing data from a spreadsheet into it.
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It doesn't come much better than OpenOffice to be honest. What sort of problems are you having importing? And where are you importing from? Possibly consider saving as a different format in the source package for import into OpenOffice too.Throwing acid is bad.... in some peoples eyes...0
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mysql is free - you should probably elaborate on what you want it for though.0
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I strongly suspect he's looking at a database like Access as opposed to a backend database.Throwing acid is bad.... in some peoples eyes...0
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data is in open office calc. just looking to get it into a table in base so i can set up and manage a mail merge (its data for a mail out). would you happen to know what format i should save it in so as to open in base?0
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i've just managed it! many thanks for both responding...0
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