On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 21:51 -0500, H P Ladds wrote: > I might as well learn how to do this thing in MySQL and skip the > distraction of hsqldb -- right? Or perhaps I should use something like > Kexi? Just as OpenOffice.org Base uses hsqldb, Kexi uses sqlite. You could set up a MySQL database and use OpenOffice.org Base or Kexi as a frontend to it. -Brian