[dba-Tech] Alternatives to MS Office

[John Bartow]

And iirc it can utilize open source data sources with SQL so you can put function calls directly into your database.

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Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Alternatives to MS Office

LibreOffice has a version of Basic (LibreOffice Basic) built into it.

I don't know how extensive or feature rich it is compared to VBA, but
there is something there.

It also has an API that you can use to control LO from an outside application.

https://helponline.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/sbasic/shared/01010210.html?&DbPAR=WRITER&System=WIN

Ohh, and I just saw that they do support "a large portion of the
common usage patterns" of VBA.

https://helponline.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/sbasic/shared/vbasupport.html?&DbPAR=WRITER&System=WIN


B

On 4 February 2018 at 06:40, Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com> wrote:
> So the question arises, why doesn't somebody write a VBA for Linux? Way
> beyond my skill set, but some of you people are way smarter than I, so...?
>
> A.
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