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36<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Database Selection</title>
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42<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id2082583"><bookmark_value>databases; connecting (Base)</bookmark_value>
43</bookmark><comment>mw moved databases;formats (base) to shared/explorer/database/dabawiz00.xhp</comment>
44<paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN1054D" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="NEW"><link href="text/shared/explorer/database/dabawiz01.xhp">Database Selection</link></paragraph>
45<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1055D" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG"><ahelp hid=".">Creates a new database, opens a database file, or connects to an existing database.</ahelp></paragraph>
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47<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/DBACCESS_HID_PAGE_DBWIZARD_GENERAL_RB_CREATEDBDATABASE" id="bm_id2482985" localize="false"/>
48<paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN10585" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="NEW">Create a new database</paragraph>
49<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10589" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW"><ahelp hid=".">Select to create a new database. </ahelp>This option uses the HSQL database engine with default settings. The final page of the wizard appears next.</paragraph>
50<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id8584246" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW"><link href="http://hsqldb.org/">External web page about HSQL</link>.</paragraph>
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53<paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN105F9" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="NEW">Open an existing database file</paragraph>
54<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN105FD" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW"><ahelp hid=".">Select to open a database file from a list of recently used files or from a file selection dialog.</ahelp></paragraph>
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57<paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN10614" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="NEW">Recently used</paragraph>
58<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10618" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW"><ahelp hid=".">Select a database file to open from the list of recently used files. Click Finish to open the file immediately and to exit the wizard.</ahelp></paragraph>
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61<paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN1062F" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="NEW">Open</paragraph>
62<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10633" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW"><ahelp hid=".">Opens a file selection dialog where you can select a database file. Click Open or OK in the file selection dialog to open the file immediately and to exit the wizard.</ahelp></paragraph>
63<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/DBACCESS_HID_PAGE_DBWIZARD_GENERAL_RB_GETEXISTINGDATABASE" id="bm_id5028229" localize="false"/>
64<paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN1058C" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="NEW">Connect to an existing database</paragraph>
65<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10590" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW"><ahelp hid=".">Select to create a database document for an existing database connection.</ahelp></paragraph>
66<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/DBACCESS_HID_DSADMIN_DSTYPE" id="bm_id763267" localize="false"/>
67<paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN10593" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="NEW">Database type</paragraph>
68<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10597" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW"><ahelp hid=".">Select the database type for the existing database connection.</ahelp></paragraph>
69<paragraph role="note" id="par_idN1059A" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">The Outlook, Evolution, KDE Address Book, and Seamonkey database types do not need additional information. For other database types, the wizard contains additional pages to specify the required information.</paragraph>
70<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10611" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">The next wizard page is one of the following pages:</paragraph>
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72<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1061C" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW"><link href="text/shared/explorer/database/dabawiz02text.xhp">Set up text file connection</link></paragraph>
73<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1062B" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG"><link href="text/shared/explorer/database/dabawiz02access.xhp">Set up Microsoft Access or Microsoft Access 2007 connection</link></paragraph>
74<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1063A" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW"><link href="text/shared/explorer/database/dabawiz02ldap.xhp">Set up LDAP connection</link></paragraph>
75<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10658" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW"><link href="text/shared/explorer/database/dabawiz02ado.xhp">Set up ADO connection</link></paragraph>
76<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10667" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW"><link href="text/shared/explorer/database/dabawiz02jdbc.xhp">Set up JDBC connection</link></paragraph>
77<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10676" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW"><link href="text/shared/explorer/database/dabawiz02oracle.xhp">Set up Oracle database connection</link></paragraph>
78<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10685" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW"><link href="text/shared/explorer/database/dabawiz02mysql.xhp">MySQL settings</link></paragraph>
79<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10694" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW"><link href="text/shared/explorer/database/dabawiz02odbc.xhp">ODBC settings</link></paragraph>
80<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN106A3" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW"><link href="text/shared/explorer/database/dabawiz02spreadsheet.xhp">Set up Spreadsheet connection</link></paragraph>
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