Hi Steve. Long time no speak.
Re Crystal, so nothing has really changed has it. Of course this means that
Crystal is disgustingly slow at running any reports, and network traffic is
maximised. I also notice Dll pollution, and an old version of the BDE is
dished out as well. It is also very 3.11 ish in look and feel isn't it.
Yuk!
To me, I found the learning curve with crystal quite steep for many of my
customers, so what product would you reccomend for end users?
Cheers,
Tony.
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Peacocke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Saturday, 13 March 1999 09:26
Subject: Re: [DUG]: Report Builder Pro (was Delphi and Crystal on NT4)
>At 10:45 pm 12/3/1999 +1300, Tony Blomfield said:
>>The question I asked on my last mail was directed to the chap, who
obviously
>>new Crystal very well, but unfortunatly I haven't had a reply. To refresh
>>your memory, the question was "Does Crystal still create real dumb SQL
which
>>can not be modified and which brings all columns back to the workstation
>>where they are filterd locally???" Take a slow boat to china...
>
>Gidday Tony,
>
>The answer is definately half right to that one. It's a problem I hit a
>while back where Crystal does not generate certain SQL calls, e.g. "NULL",
>but filters those cals at the workstation.
>
>This causes problems when you e.g. ask for all records where the "name is
>NOT NULL". Crystal will select all records in this case to send to the
>workstation where the workstation will print only those with a blank name
>(maybe none).
>
I think the problem is a LOT worse than this simple case you mention. I
found it a real challenge to get Crystal to use a where clause at all.
(Used with Informix 7 and Intersolv ODBC driver)
>To get around this fault, you can edit the generated SQL directly -
>PROBLEM: You will have to remember to keep editing the SQL every time you
>open that report in Crystal as it re-generates the SQL every time.
That's another cute feature I appreciated.
To cut a long story short, in the end I convinced the customer to bail from
Crystal, and wrote him a reports module in Delphi, and made reports using
QR. This was infinatly simpler than using Crystal, and the reports ran heeps
faster - like 10 - 10E4 faster.> For me it was faster also to create the
reports, but then I dont have a huge experiance with Crystal.
>Hope this helps.
>
>I've been using QR but will have a looky at this RBPro due to the kind
>words and warm fuzzies experienced by others here.
A good idea. It's smooth.
>
>Steve
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