[libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow

Am 29.07.2011 13:42, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> Could that community be prevailed upon to join TDF and manage the Base part of
> the project?  Presumably they have knowledge of key players and have a good idea
> of what needs to be done to improve Base?
> Regards from
> Tom :)

Be assured that those guys did their very best to assist the OOo 
developers at Sun/Oracle with user support, bug hunting, documentation 
and moderate (doable) feature requests. Now those days are over.

As a heavy Base user I would be very pleased to see a functional, 
standard compliant, actively maintained, one-way data import facility in 
LibreOffice. This would require a tiny fraction of the current code 
without any Java dependency at all.

No more database development in this office suite. No more office users 
overstrained by abstract data models. Simply connect, query and link 
already existing, well formed databases to document fields as it always 
used to work since the first version of OOo. This is how the majority of 
office users uses Base when they create serial letters without even 
noticing the .odb file on their disk (well, until they delete it ...).

Like in OOo 1.x, the "Base document" should be a simple registration 
entry with connection info and some SELECT strings because the "embedded 
database document" failed completely, drowning gigabytes of user data in 
binary swamps.

Andreas Säger


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