<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible">This is where you can define specific settings for a database which is accessed by means of ODBC. This includes your personal access data, perhaps driver settings and font definitions.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph">An <help:popup Id="65619" Eid="odbc" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">ODBC</help:popup> database normally resides on one of the larger computer on the network. Access is limited to authorized users.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">A table must have a clear index, if you want to edit or add records in <help:productname xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">%PRODUCTNAME</help:productname>. Note that the ODBC drivers are always supplied and supported by the database manufacturer; the ODBC drivers are not a component of <help:productname xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">%PRODUCTNAME</help:productname>. <help:productname xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">%PRODUCTNAME</help:productname> supports only the ODBC 3 standard.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible">Mark this check box if a password is necessary to access the database. You will always be asked to enter the password when you first connect to the database during a session.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible">Use this text field to enter additional optional driver settings if this is necessary.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible">This is where you select the code conversion to be used for viewing the database in <help:productname>%PRODUCTNAME</help:productname> (the data itself does not change).</help:help-text> Databases running in DOS as a rule use the ASCII character set, which is compiled from various code pages (country-specific character sets) under "IBMPC (850) / DOS". In windows the ANSI character set is used, and Macintosh uses the character set referred to here as "MAC". Enter "System" to select the character set that represents the default for the operating system in which you have started <help:productname>%PRODUCTNAME</help:productname>.</p>
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<p class="Head2"><help:help-id value="HID_DSADMIN_USECATALOG" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>Use Catalog for file-based databases.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">If you check this box, the current data source of the Catalog is used. This may be necessary if, for example, the ODBC data source is a database server. Problems can, however arise when Catalog is used, if the ODBC data source is, for example, a dBase driver in which case the box should not be checked.</help:help-text></p>