>> I might be wrong here, but... MS Office provides MS Access, which is a
>> (low-powered) DB engine. IIRC, OpenOffice Calc isn't actually a DB
>> engine, it is *only* a front-end. You still need to find a DB from
>> somewhere, set it up and tell Calc how to talk to it.
> 
> You mean oobase, surely - oocalc is a spreadsheet.

*facepalm*

Yes, of course... :-$

> But I do agree that oobase isn't the best piece of software - I've used 
> it quite a bit for accessing things like Oracle tables, and the setup 
> could be a lot smoother.  Supports ODBC and JDBC, though, so that's 
> something.

Oracle is a nice product, but if you just want to store your phonebook 
or your CD collection, it's way way overkill. I will say one thing about 
MS Access: It may be an utterly crap DB engine, but if all you want to 
do is store and lookup a little bit of data, it's the most lightweight 
thing I've seen. You get the DB engine and a nice front-end and a design 
tool, all in one. It's not very *good*, but for small things it's 
right-sized.

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