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Posted: 10/11/2007 12:05:05 AM EDT
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If you don't have excellent data dictionaries for all your tables, all the training and books will be a complete waste of time.
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Posted: 10/11/2007 12:05:34 AM EDT
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Did you also get Crystal XCelsius?
That's some bitchin software. |
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Posted: 10/11/2007 12:15:27 AM EDT
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If you don't have excellent data dictionaries and models for all your tables, all the training and books will be a complete waste of time.
Didn't they merge with the Business Objects company? I liked BO though with lots of data, it was a pain to maintain, especially after a so-so implementation and lots changing along the way. Fortunately I had no DBA responsibility. But the BO software seemed much more intuitive and efficient to use than than Crystal Reports. For your sake, I hope that changed. |
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Posted: 10/11/2007 1:43:05 AM EDT
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Amen.
Yep. |
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Posted: 10/11/2007 3:13:52 AM EDT
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And BO was just bought by SAP. |
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Posted: 10/11/2007 3:16:20 AM EDT
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I haven't used it since version 9.
Is it still a PITA to integrate CR with your own apps? Last I recall, it gave new meaning to DLL hell. 
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Posted: 10/11/2007 8:26:18 AM EDT
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Visual Studio .NET now comes with a Crystal Reports plugin. Its integrated pretty well.
Dez |
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Posted: 10/11/2007 8:32:22 AM EDT
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You must not do any application controlled dynamic paging. I got to deal with CR 11 last year and I was not impressed. If you want to learn a real reporting tool go learn Cognos. |
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Posted: 10/11/2007 2:41:32 PM EDT
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When I asked about a data dictionary here was the response.    We have a rather large database we pull against and Crystal seems to do pretty well. I am pretty much fresh out of college and this is the first 'real world' exposure I have ever had to an operational database. I have used SQL but that was on an Oracle platform. I am in a MIS/CRM reporting department so it looks like this will be the career for a while so I need to get good at it. Oh, thanks for the replies. |
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Posted: 10/11/2007 2:46:11 PM EDT
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Crystal Reports sucks the cock of Satan, and a pox on those who continue to purchase that vile piece of shit, thus assuring it's continued existence. Nowhere else in all of computing has someone managed to take a concept so simple, and complicate the ever loving shit out of it to the extent that these cocksuckers have. May the creator lick my brown eye clean, and find a tapeworm in his Tequila.
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Posted: 10/11/2007 3:39:13 PM EDT
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9.2 |
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Posted: 10/11/2007 5:09:16 PM EDT
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Sometimes you need a report. I have used CR to make the report I needed. Mostly, I did it by luck. I have no idea how I succeeded, other than the fact that I had to. Is there any alternative out there that will work with the same databases and is easy to use and understand? |
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