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| <h1 id="sqlite_driver">sqlite-sdbc-driver-0.1.0</h1> |
| <h2>Content</h2> |
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| <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a href="#intro">Introduction</a> |
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| <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a href="#install">Installation</a> |
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| <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a href="#datasource">Adding a datasource</a> |
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| <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a href="#url">Url format</a> |
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| <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a href="#features">Features</a> |
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| <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a href="#questions">Open questions</a> |
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| <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a href="#source">Building from source</a> |
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| <p><a href="#author">Author</a> |
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| <h2><a name="intro"></a>Introduction</h2> |
| <p><a name="install"></a>Use <a href="http://www.sqlite.org">SQLite 2.8.x</a> to |
| read single file SQLite databases under Linux (and later Windows). |
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| <h2>Installation</h2> |
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| <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">On Linux, install the SQLite binary package |
| suitable for your distro. The minimum SQLite version required is 2.8.13 |
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| <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Install OpenOffice.org 1.1 or newer.<br> |
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| <p>Download the binary version of the driver. |
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| <ul> |
| <li><a name="datasource"></a><a href="http://www.ch-werner.de/sqliteodbc/sqlite-sdbc-0.1.1.zip">sqlite-sdbc-driver-0.1.1.zip</a></li> |
| <li><a name="datasource"></a><a href="http://www.ch-werner.de/sqliteodbc/sqlite3-sdbc-0.1.1.zip">sqlite3-sdbc-0.1.1.zip</a></li> |
| </ul> |
| (The sqlite3... driver is a quick port to the upcoming SQLite 3 engine (currently beta version 3.0.6 on www.sqlite.org). It does |
| not use newer features of the SQLite3 API but merely is an adaption of the current driver.) |
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| Copy the zip file in <code>OpenOffice1.1/user/uno_packages</code> folder (Note: |
| USE the zip file as a whole, DO NOT extract it). Open up a shell and switch to |
| the OpenOffice1.1/program directory and start the pkgchk tool. On success, no |
| output is given. Alternatively, you can install the driver for all users of a |
| OpenOffice.org network installation by placing the file into the <code>OpenOffice1.1/share/uno_packages</code> |
| and starting pkgchk --shared You can uninstall the package by deleting the file |
| in the uno_packages directory and starting pkgchk again. |
| </p> |
| <h3>Adding a datasource</h3> |
| <p><a name="url"></a>You can now add a datasource via the common Tools/Data |
| Sources dialog. Click on new datasource and select sqlite from the Database |
| type combobox. Then put the file name of your SQLite database right after the |
| sqlite: into the URL input field.</p> |
| <h3>URL format</h3> |
| <p>Format: <code>sdbc:sqlite:sqlite_database_filename </code> |
| </p> |
| <h3><br> |
| </h3> |
| <h2><a name="features"></a>Supported and missing features</h2> |
| <p>The driver supports reading and writing SQLite 2 databases. It has the |
| following limitations: |
| </p> |
| <ol> |
| <li> |
| <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">It uses the encoding of the SQLite engine. |
| Depending on how SQLite was generated, this is ISO 8859-1 or UTF-8. |
| </p> |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">The data types supported for now are INTEGER and |
| VARCHAR. In result sets, INTEGER is only reported for "INTEGER PRIMARY KEY" |
| fields, i.e. SQLite's auto incrementing columns. All other columns are |
| VARCHARs.</p> |
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| <p>It is possible to create new SQLite tables from OpenOffice.org's table |
| designer. However, creating/deleting indexes may fail due to bugs in SQLite's |
| SQL parser or OpenOffice.org's SQL dialect.</p> |
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| The driver is always in auto commit mode.</li> |
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| <p>The driver may contain memory leaks and bugs which can crash OpenOffice.org<br> |
| </p> |
| </li> |
| </ol> |
| <h2><a name="questions"></a>Open questions</h2> |
| <h2><a name="source"></a>Building from source</h2> |
| <p>Linux: Fetch the <a href="http://www.ch-werner.de/sqliteodbc/sqlite-sdbc.tar.gz"> |
| source code</a> and unpack it in .../connectivity/source/drivers. Setup your |
| OOo environment for building, then goto the |
| .../connectivity/source/drivers/sqlite directory and type dmake. The source |
| code expects the SQLite header files and libraries in standard places |
| (/usr/include and /usr/lib)<br> |
| </p> |
| <p>Building on Windows should be possible but was not tested so far.<br> |
| </p> |
| <h2><a name="author"></a>Authors</h2> |
| <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">The driver has been implemented based on the MDB |
| driver by Christian Werner(chw@openoffice.org) |
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