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