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Re: Reporting services any good?

Ben Watts
8/29/2006 3:05:53 PM

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I started out on Crystal. Our company switched to SQL 2005. It has alot of
simialr things that Crystal has but implemented in different ways. My
personal opinion is that you can do alot more with SQL. You can handle alot
more different types of data at once and do more things with it. I was
skeptical at first, but now I hardly ever use Crystal.
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Re: Reporting services any good?

Bruce L-C [MVP]
8/29/2006 3:55:11 PM

My impression that there are some things that is easy to do in Crystal that
is hard in RS and vice a versa (spelling?). RS is different with how you do
things. For instance, if you want to solve the problem the RS way then you
will do fine. If you want to do it the Crystal would do it and feel that RS
is stupid if it can't do it then stay with Crystal. As an example, Crystal
works a lot where you give it a recordest and away it goes. RS is designed
as a service. You set it up to do things and then envoke the service. If you
want to have all your own code returning datasets, etc then Crystal handles
this better. If you want to just set up the SQL statement or call a stored
procedure and let RS handle creating the dataset then you are good to go.

RS is particularly good at creating interactive reports, drill through is
very easy and powerful and fast.

--
Bruce Loehle-Conger
MVP SQL Server Reporting Services

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Reporting services any good?

Smokey Grindel
8/29/2006 3:56:46 PM

We use reports heavely and have LOTS of data to work with that needs reports
run on, and right now we have a couple reports in crystal XI, but were
looking at reporting services on SQL 2005 since we already have it... honest
opinnions please, is it a good product? anything its lacking that crystal
has, anything that it has that crystal doesnt? thanks a lot!

Re: Reporting services any good?

sullins602
8/29/2006 4:04:15 PM

Here's a couple key features in SSRS 2005 that really sold me on it:

o Ad-hoc reporting tool (This has saved me countless hours)
o Ability to integrate w/ other .Net web apps
o Integration with SQL 2005 database engine

Cheers,
Ben

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