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Sunday, October 7, 2018

Anyone Using OpenOffice Base?

Importing my spreadsheet was easy, but when I used the query wizard, I asked to see records where year =191 (or "1911" in case someone was confused about its type, I got all records.  Here is the SQL the wizard created:
SELECT "MassMurder"."ID" AS "ID", "MassMurder"."month" AS "month", "MassMurder"."date" AS "date", "MassMurder"."year" AS "year", "MassMurder"."city" AS "city", "MassMurder"."state" AS "state", "MassMurder"."dead victim count" AS "dead victim count", "MassMurder"."undead victim count" AS "undead victim count", "MassMurder"."suicide?" AS "suicide?", "MassMurder"."UNKNOWN" AS "UNKNOWN", "MassMurder"."AX" AS "AX", "MassMurder"."HATCHET" AS "HATCHET", "MassMurder"."KNIFE" AS "KNIFE", "MassMurder"."OTHER SHARP" AS "OTHER SHARP", "MassMurder"."BLUNT" AS "BLUNT", "MassMurder"."EXPLOSIVE" AS "EXPLOSIVE", "MassMurder"."POISON" AS "POISON", "MassMurder"."STRANGLE" AS "STRANGLE", "MassMurder"."DROWN" AS "DROWN", "MassMurder"."ARSON" AS "ARSON", "MassMurder"."HANG" AS "HANG", "MassMurder"."OTHER" AS "OTHER", "MassMurder"."FIREARM (unidentified)" AS "FIREARM (unidentified)", "MassMurder"."shotgun" AS "shotgun", "MassMurder"."rifle" AS "rifle", "MassMurder"."pistol" AS "pistol", "MassMurder"."machine gun" AS "machine gun", "MassMurder"."cause" AS "cause", "MassMurder"."category" AS "category" FROM "MassMurder" "MassMurder"
Shouldn't there be a WHERE clause?   So I added "where MassMurder.year = 1911" and saving it caused:
Syntax error in SQL statement
Ah, I needed quotes:
"MassMurder"."year = 1911"
So why doesn't the query wizard work?

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