Hi Alex, > You should try running the mail merge / etiquette wizard with a > pre-registered query containing only 350 tuples taken from a single > mysql table and see how painstakingly slow that is ;-). In fact, it was > so slow, we just gave up. The same symptoms seem to occur, CPU > occupation hits the ceiling.
I'm missing the bug number here ;) > I can't solve your problem, but at least as far as I'm concerned, > OOoBase still has extremely poor performance when it comes to doing > normal office work things like making address stickers. I hate to point > the finger at Java, because in other respects, things work quite well, > and are fairly snappy, but I'm afraid I can see no other culprit, or > perhaps there is : the integration of Java with OOo, i.e a non-optimized > bridge for Base/Writer tasks. Sorry, but this is nonsense. When you do a mail merge based on a MySQL table, *no* Java is involved at all. As far as Base is concerned, Java is used for certain auto pilots (*not* the mail merge AP), and for the HSQLDB backend. If you don't use both, you won't ever start the JVM. Ciao Frank -- - Frank Schönheit, Software Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com/staroffice - - OpenOffice.org Database http://dba.openoffice.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
