OpenOffice access a table from an odb (HSQLDB) file

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I got an external Access database imported with OpenOffice and saved by OpenOffice as .odb file. However I can't access the data from my OpenOffice Calc table fields:

='filename.odb'#tablename.A0

does not import anything. Is there a special trick about that ?
I can't find any solutions on how to solve this issue. Even using the row and column names instead of A0 does not work. I can't believe I have to code like a whole function to read values from HSQLDB databases into my table fields.
The common way on importing parts of external tables in OpenOffice like the above code aren't working.

I also tried to add a database link within my spreadsheet and access it with its name:

='databasename'#tablename.A0

but that ditn't work either. Also using the row name instead of A0 which is ID in my case. What I want to do is perform VLOOKUP functions on the external table to obtain some product IDs and product descriptions. I can view the external database by pressing F4. So importing it kinda worked.

The only solution that works is copy+paste the required tables into new OpenOffice documents and accessing them with the default OpenOffice functions.

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