Office SQL Query long runtime

Question

I've got a database View in SQL Server 2008 and when I run it from Query Analyser, it runs within a couple of seconds. When I run it in Excel 2007, it loads the data just fine. But when I run it in Word 2007 on a mail merge, it just seems to take a very long time to run (literally minutes to run).

If anyone has an idea how to solve this, could they let me know?

Answer 1

SQL 2008 will allow you to run a Profiler trace on the query. Start the trace before you kick off the Word query and see how long it takes. My guess is it's the mail-merge that's slow.

If it were slow in Excel too, you'd be looking at your indexes.