Accessing the SQL file in 2.4

[Eric Ladner]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Derek Atkins<warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> Vince Radice <vhradice at cfl.rr.com> writes:
>
>> I was wondering if the OpenOffice Base program will allow me access
>> directly to the new file format or will I need some other software in
>> order to access the data?  What about M$ Access?
>>
>> My current thoughts would be to use these to create some custom
>> reports.  I am currently using Quicken.  Several releases back, there
>> was a facility to create custom reports with the data I want in a
>> format I liked.  Some of the new report formats are terrible.
>
> I doubt that OOo can access the GnuCash DB directly.  I'm sure
> that MS Access cannot.  The DB is SQLite.
>

OOo should be able to.  Base can use standard JDBC drivers and there's
a SQLite JDBC driver out there somewhere (although the page Google
digs up refuses to load right now).

Access is evil (my 0.02).

>> Thanks,
>> Vince Radice
>
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> -derek
>