Is “Database Programming with OpenOffice.org Base & Basic” by Roberto Benitez still available in any format?
It appears to no longer be in print
I suspect that Benitez’ book goes deeper, but without being able to see it…
Might be this helps also:
AndrewBase.pdf (1.4 MB)
Couldn’t find it by searching in the web. Seems the old domain isn’t reachable any more…
It was out of print last time I looked, and that was a few years ago. Probably your best bet would be to try and find a second hand version somewhere.
Thanks for that, but I’ve already seen this.
I’ve read quite a bit of Pitonyak’s stuff and find it very useful and illuminating (probably the most useful that I have come across so far), but I find it a little bitty and far from comprehensive. He references Benitez quite a bit too.
Obviously, without getting my hands on his book I can’t be sure, but Benitez’ book appears to be more complete.
It’s a shame that it hasn’t been made available in PDF format by the LibreOffice/OO community
?? I guess, that’s up to Roberto Benitez and the publisher he has choosen.
@SVCooper : You are part of the community.
You know about this book I have never seen/heard about. So I have written most of the content of Base Guide in German Base Handbuch (original of Base Guide) - without using any other books except the books of Thomas Krumbein. This book is available for everybody.
Maybe, maybe not. But any text from 2008 will not cover later changes in Base or the outside world.
While Base has not changed very much in core, we should note there is now alo Firebird. External changes are for example MariaDB replacing MySQL in most Linux-Distributions and the vanished Thunderbird-Addressbook (code still works for old files, but Thunderbird uses now a sqlite-database instead).
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So, what do you expect to find between Pitonyak/Base-guide and the API?
Truthfully, I don’t know. When I move to a new “paradigm”, I find it helps to read something which begins at the basics and, bit, by bit, goes deeper into the subject. What exists at a deeper level and whether Benitez’ book would take me there I don’t know. I’m sure that all of the information that I likely to need is out there but, to access it you first need to know what questions to ask. All that I have seen so far, be it the official guides or Pitonyak, either doesn’t go far enough or requires the reader to know the questions to ask before-hand.
Typical Brit (me, that is)! Is Krumbein’s book available in English.
The reason that I am particularly interested in the Benitez book is simply because I have seen it highly recommended, no more than that.
By the way, the reason that I am asking about the Benitez book is because I have seen it highly recommended, no more than that
A printed edition would be better, of course, but the costs (to Benitez and his publishers) involved in doing that probably aren’t worth incurring…
It was a privately published work, so the author would have to republish their work under a new licence, to which the publisher would have to agree (assuming that it wasn’t self-published). It is entirely possible that the contract between author and publisher prevents this from happening.
I’m sure that there are very good reasons for why the book is no longer available. I asked my original question because I had failed to find it and was checking that I hadn’t missed anything, it appears that I hadn’t. Heyho