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| **Base** is a fully featured desktop database management system, designed to |
| meet the needs of a broad array of users, from |
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| - just tracking your personal CD collection, to |
| - producing a corporate monthly departmental sales report. |
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| **Base** offers wizards to help users new to database design (or just new to |
| **Base**) to create Tables, Queries, Forms and Reports, along with a set of |
| predefined table definitions for tracking Assets, Customers, Sales Orders, |
| Invoices and much more. |
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| When a personal use database is all you need, **Base** offers the full HSQL |
| relational database engine, configured for single user, with the data stored |
| right in the **Base** file, as well as native support for dBase flat files. |
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| For power users in the enterprise, **Base** delivers native support drivers for |
| a variety of multi-user database engines: MySQL, Adabas D, MS Access and |
| PostgreSQL. In addition, support for JDBC and ODBC standard drivers allows you |
| to connect to virtually any existing database. |
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| **Base** integrates seamlessly into the rest of the Apache OpenOffice suite |
| applications, for example: |
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| - supplying address book data for mail merge in WRITER using the industry |
| standard LDAP protocol, or common address book formats such as Microsoft |
| Outlook, Microsoft Windows and Mozilla; |
| - creating linked data ranges in CALC files for data pilot analysis or as the |
| basis for charts. |
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| For more information on working with **Base**, please see the |
| [Apache OpenOffice Wiki Database][1] pages. |
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| For technical information, or to help make **Base** even better, stop by the |
| [**Base** project page][2]. |
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| [1]: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/database |
| [2]: http://dba.openoffice.org/ |
