25 Jan 10
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Connect OpenOffice with MAMP/XAMPP MySQL on OS X
Just to have a note for myself, here are some steps you need to know to connect your MySQL Database with OpenOffice e.g. for creating form letters.
You need to create a ODBC connection. First step is to install the latest ODBC drivers. For MySQL you will get them diretly from MySQL: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/odbc/. Just download and click through the installer. If you used the XAMPP or MAMP packages the MySQL socket will not be installed in the /tmp directory. But this is required for most ODBC drivers.
