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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 tracking a personal CD collections, |
| to producing a corporate monthly departmental sales reports. |
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| Base offers wizards to help users new to database design (or 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 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]: https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/database |
| [2]: https://dba.openoffice.org/ |
