[Qgis-user] QGIS and Libre\OpenOffice

[Paolo Cavallini]

Hi,
so basically what you need is a data provider capable of connecting to
your DB backend. What is actually missing when you use an ODBC connection?
Cheers.

On 04/03/19 15:38, Tyler Veinot wrote:
> Base is a front end but it can also be built with a embedded database of
> either Firebird or HyperSQL and is becomes a xyz.odb file. What I want
> to do is through QGIS open that xyz.odb file and get a view of all the
> tables, much like when opening a filegeodatabase, and add the tables I
> want to my map. When I use external databases like Postgres and Sqlite
> with the LibreOffice front end I lose certain capabilities. 
> Firebird is a somewhat new feature and I have been experimenting with
> Firebird embedded databases and external firebird databases and
> LibreBase. When I last left it I had LibreBase interacting with a
> Firebird database file and was trying to get QGIS to connect to that
> file using ODBC. The Firebird database file works better than using
> Sqlite because I do not lose some of the capabilities and features in
> LibreBase.
> Maybe integrate was the wrong word but basically I want to setup a
> database app in LibreBase and have the information displayed in QGIS
> without the use of a import/export function.
> Tyler

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