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Alternative to LibreOffice Base for Ubuntu

Is there a database management software for Ubuntu alternative to LibreOffice Base? LObase works fine for a while, but occasionally the files I'm working on get corrupted and I lose all my work.
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How can I tie an alert to a LIbra database?

I want to know how to tie an "alert" or notification to a column in a LibreOffice database table. I'm a new Linux user and am working with a LibreOffice database. In the near future I intend to put ...
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LibreOffice Base 3.5: no Report Builder

I have tried installing Base several times and have read the Wikipedia information about the report builder -- and still cannot get it. I want to use a MySQL database and LibreOffice Base to generate ...
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How do you use the ROWNUM fuction (or similar) in LibreOffice Base query?

I am trying to help someone who wants to put data into alphabetical order with a row number. I thought I could do a query like this select "name", ROWNUM() as "Row" from "data" order by "name" But ...
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Is it possible to open a Office 2010 Access files

I have a .accdb file created with MS Office 2010 and I want to know if it is possible to open it with some native Ubuntu application like LibreOffice or OpenOffice, I know LibreOffice has LibreOffice ...
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How can I open .db files?

I've imported a .db file from my android device and I wish to open it using Libreoffice Base or something similarly basic with a simple GUI. How do I achieve this?
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Missing ODBCConfig for SQLite and LibreOffice Base

I have used OpenOffice Base as a front end for SQlite databases, in 10.04 linked via ODBC. I am updating to 12.04, so I loaded LibreOffice Base, looks just like OObase. I have 12.04 on one drive and ...
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How to access MySQL server with user password issued through LibreOffice Base frontend?

When dist-upgrading Ubuntu 11.10 to 12.04 UpdateManager asked to enter a "new" user password for MySQL. I denied 3 times. This asking was put misleadingly. I better should have entered a user password ...
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How obtain error message when exporting data from LibreOffice Base to Calc and freezing occurs?

[Ubuntu 12.04] When exporting large (100 MB) data from a table in LibreOffice 3.5.2.2 Base embedded HSQLDB to a Calc spreadsheet using the procedure outlined in LibreOffice Help, LibreOffice Base and ...
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Get a SQLite3 db in LibreOffice (via ODBC). Using Ubuntu 11.04 (64bit)

I'm stuck with this. I had SQLite working with OpenOffice in the past. But since then i reinstalled my machine and so... Now I can't get it to work. i pretty much followed this guide: ...
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My .odb database spikes the CPU in OpenOffice and LibreOffice [closed]

my database is in .odb format, and it does not work in 9.1, 10.04, 10.10, openoffice OR 11.04 beta libreoffice but works in xp, w7 and fedora 14 The biggest issue i'm facing is that it takes minutes ...