In my last article, Quick and Dirty with Open Office Base, I described my initial experiences with building a simple database application for my wife in Open Office Base, having had no prior experience with the program. In that article, I described how easy it is to get started, and how easy it is to build usable software with Base. In this article, I'm going to discuss mitigating one of Base's major weaknesses by connecting it to an external SQL back-end.