Comparison Of SQL Server Reporting Services To Access Reports, Crystal Reports, Cognos Or Other Options
Nov 5, 2007
Hello SQL Server Experts, Data Analysts, and Report Writers et al:
re: Reporting Options with SQL Server
I wanted to propose an offshoot to the pryor thread:
Would anyone take a stab at comparing Access Reports, Crystal Reports,
Cognos or other options to all the Reporting Services and its components offered as part ofSQL Server, especially as to extracting data from SQL Server into a report format?
I guess this is a far as capabilites, ease of use, limitations, and especially formatting
or presentation of the end report product?
Thank you to all, and I hope this is a beneficial discussion to others.
Hal1490
Hal9000
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Aug 23, 2004
Can anyone tell me if MS Reporting Services can import/read a Crystal Reports file as it can an Access report file?
I've seen a few posts out on other boards that there are some companies charging fees for converting Crystal Reports over to MS Reporting Services.
Is there any easier way? Are there any tools out there that can do it?
Perhaps Microsoft should produce such a tool for converting...
Thanks in advance for any help!!
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Jul 12, 2007
Crystal reports to Reporting Services
Is there any way I can convert Crystal reports to Reporting Services instead of creating reports again in Reporting Services?
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Feb 21, 2007
I showed my boss the functionality of ad hoc reporting in SRSS and he likes it. He asked me if we could completely move away from Crystal Reports (CR) to SRSS.
Does anyone have any issues with SRSS that didnt exist in CR.
One question i have is programmability capabilities. Some time back i had to make a very complex report in CR. I create a table in the dataset. Designed the report to pull data from that table and the table was being populated through some VB.NET code. So the users will open a GUI and hit RUN, which is when i will populate the table and show the report. You can assume that populating the table required complex programming and couldnt have been done through user defined functions in a report.
I dont suppose stuff like this can be done in SRSS?
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Feb 20, 2008
Hi,
I am converting a crystal report cross-tab, in to a reporting services matrix. The cross-tab uses a GridRowColumnValue function to hide/show the data & total fields.
Is there an equivalent in reporting service or a workaround method for this?
Thank you
N
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I am in the middle of migrating all Crystal Reports over to SSRS and am having some troubles converting formulas used in Crystal Reports to functional expressions in SSRS. For example: My formula for one of the crystal reports is the following. Very simple logic but how would I build it as an expression to work in my SSRS report?
IF {CUST_ORDER_LINE.ORDER_QTY}-{CUST_ORDER_LINE.TOTAL_SHIPPED_QTY} < 0 THEN 0 ELSE {CUST_ORDER_LINE.ORDER_QTY}-{CUST_ORDER_LINE.TOTAL_SHIPPED_QTY}
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Aug 3, 2005
Hello everyone,
I need to create a Crystal Report based on a SQL Server database. However, life is never that easy…
The report needs data to be taken from the database, manipulated and reported upon. Doing this manipulation within CR will make the report take far too long to produce so I thought I would create a temporary table within SQL Server and manipulate that.
Cannot get Create Table permission!
Plan B is to use VB / ADO to extract the data (about 1 million rows) from SQL Server and write it to a local Access database that I can manipulate as much as I want. Crystal Reports can then report on the Access data.
Questions:
•Is this the best way to go?
•I know how to use ADO to connect to n Access database but how do I connect to a SQL Server database?
•I think I will need to write a single Select to build the SQL Server recordset but will I need to write each row individually, using a Do Unitl loop, to get the data into the Access recordset?
Many thanks in advance.
Regards,
Hywel
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I have developed  SSRS reports and deployed to the SSRS Reporting server. Everything works fine.Â
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Mar 27, 2008
My issue is with converting multi-value parameters:
In Crystal Reports, you can set a parameter to accept multiple vales (Discrete, Range or Discrete and Range).
As an example:
I have a database table with a column called ID.
I can create a parameter called param_id and set the options of the parameter to "Allow multiple range values".
With this setup, I can limit the result set of the report by comparing the param_id parameter to the ID column in the database. Because param_id is a multi-value range parameter, I can pass it the following data:
1 - 50
60 - 80
150 - 127
This will only return results within those ranges.
Does anyone know if SSRS provides this kind of functionality?
Thanks,
Patrick Conway
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Hello,
Environment - Windows 2003 standard server SP1, SQL 2000 SP4 (installed mixed mode)
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Big Honkin' Problem: I should say that if the users are local admins on this server then the windows authentication works just great, if not a local admin then it doesn't work. SQL gives an error access denied. (this shows in the logs btw.. to the end user crystal displays a generic database error) Since windows authentication failed, I then decided to use the dbo and switch to SQL auth. This dbo did not have a password and everything ran great. Then the IT dept. asked me to give the user a password, so I did. Then everytime Crystal opened, a window would appear asking the user to type the database , user and password. In Windows everytime this was done the crystal control files would change ownership to whomever entered the information making the report useless to any other user until I manually went into the file properties and changed it back. I develop these reports thru an VPN connection and on my desktop I said phooey on re-entering the password 50 zillion times while developing so I opened the dsn and put the PWD line in and it ran great. So we figured why not put this on the server - the password does not pass thru to SQL, even as admin user. The final problem that came up in relation to this is that I then created another user in SQL with no password so the reports would run. I developed a report that takes the current user credentials and passes it to the report via dde link. On my machine running over the VPN and launching the database program (GoldMine) over the WAN the report did everything it was suppose to. I high-fived myself and installed it on the server where the users would launch it and the dang thing wont pass the credentials over to the report.
I know there is not much to SQL security - it's either SQL or mixed mode. I have it on mixed mode and I know for fact it runs because Goldmine runs. I have to have some sort of security 'thang' in Windows 2003 somewhere that doesn't allow the passord to move and SQL only sees a blank password.
If any body can give me any help - I would so greatly appreciate it.
thanks
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Opening a database as read only requires a temp path to be specified. [,,,Db name,,]
Can you tell me what is required to be entered here?
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Hi,
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The same app, the same server the same report ...
This is strange ...
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Mar 19, 2007
Hi
I have two questions:
1)
I need to deploy reports to a server in Spain, which I do not have direct access to. Is there any way that I can simply deploy the reports to a server here, that I have access to, and then copy the reports to the server in Spain??? Or is there any other way? I cannot expect the customers in Spain to be able to use Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 themselves to deploy reports (they do not even have access to the tool).
2)
How do I set up reporting services on a clustered server? I have configured reporting services on both clusters, but somehow I cannot initialize both of them. Only on will be initialized at a time. Does anyone have experience with this?
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Hi All,
My application uses "crystal reports" control to integrate some reports that can be viewed from within the application.
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- I've checked several times to make sure that I'm passing the correct username/password from the application.
- All letters in the password are lower case. There is not case-sensitive issue.
- I printed the username and password on a pop-up to see what values are passed , and they are correct.
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I guess , my question is:
Is there a way to trace the login failure event on the SQL Server side to see what is the value of the password that is being sent by crystal reports control?
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I appreciate the help.
Thanks,
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