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<topic id="textsharedexplorerdatabasedabawiz02odbcxml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH">
<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">ODBC Connection</title>
<filename>/text/shared/explorer/database/dabawiz02odbc.xhp</filename>
</topic>
<history>
<created date="2004-07-28T16:27:31">UFI: Database Wizard ODBC page</created>
<lastedited date="2006-05-02T14:15:18">YJ: checked</lastedited>
</history>
</meta>
<body>
<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3149031"><bookmark_value>ODBC;database (Base)</bookmark_value>
<bookmark_value>databases;ODBC (Base)</bookmark_value>
</bookmark><comment>mw added "(Base)" to all entries</comment>
<paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN1053D" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="NEW"><variable id="odbc"><link href="text/shared/explorer/database/dabawiz02odbc.xhp">ODBC Connection</link>
</variable></paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10541" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW"><ahelp hid=".">Specifies the settings for <link href="text/shared/00/00000005.xhp#odbc" name="ODBC">ODBC</link> databases.</ahelp></paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id8856776" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">To edit or add records to a database table in $[officename], the table must have a unique index field.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id8034302" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">On Solaris and Linux platforms, try to use a JDBC driver instead of an ODBC driver. See http://www.unixodbc.org for an ODBC implementation on Solaris or Linux.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id8560136" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">To connect to a Microsoft Access database on Windows, use the ADO or Access database interface, rather than ODBC.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="note" id="par_id2082583" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Drivers for ODBC are supplied and supported by the manufacturer of the database. $[officename] only supports the ODBC 3 standard.</paragraph>
<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/HID_PAGE_DBWIZARD_ODBC_ET_NAMEOFODBCDATASOURCE" id="bm_id9201025" localize="false"/>
<paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN10552" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="NEW">Name of the ODBC database</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10556" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW"><ahelp hid=".">Enter the path to the database file.</ahelp></paragraph>
<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/HID_PAGE_DBWIZARD_ODBC_PB_NAMEOFODBCDATASOURCE" id="bm_id5588549" localize="false"/>
<paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN10559" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="NEW">Browse</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1055D" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW"><ahelp hid=".">Click to open an ODBC data source selection dialog:</ahelp></paragraph>
<paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN10560" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="NEW">Choose a data source</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10564" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW"><ahelp hid=".">Select a data source to which you want to connect using ODBC. Then click <emph>OK</emph>.</ahelp></paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10567" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW"><link href="text/shared/explorer/database/dabawiz03auth.xhp">Authentication</link></paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10576" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW"><link href="text/shared/explorer/database/dabawiz00.xhp">Database Wizard</link></paragraph>
</body>
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