Re: [gnome-db] Mergeant + FileMaker

[Alex Hornby <alex anvil co uk>]

On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 13:56, adam morrison-ind com wrote:
> >Is there some plan to give to Mergeant the possibility to import 
> >FileMaker files and convert them to a specific database (PostgreSQL or 
> >MySQL)?
> 
> If someone create a GDA provider for filemaker, then yes.
> 
> >Will Mergeant be able to import data stored in a spreadsheet file? 
> >(Excel, Gnumeric, OpenOffice ...)
> 
> If someone creates a GDA provider for those file formats.  Of course, if those
> applications support GDA themselves you may be able to do the reverse.  Load
> data into a GDA supported database via Gnumeric which supports both Excel and
> GDA.  Open Office would be tougher, as I don't think there is even the
> beginnings of GDA support.
> 

Open Office does supports ODBC though... there is a good article on it
at:

http://www.unixodbc.org/doc/OOoMySQL.pdf

Perhaps an ODBC driver based on GDA is needed! (only half joking...)

Cheers,
Alex.