Reporting Frameworks
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I've been tasked with researching some alternatives to SQL Server Reporting Services and was wondering what experiences and recommendations anyone out there has? I've also seen a couple of add-ons for reporting services, some of which look quite promising - has anyone got any experience of these? PS Ideally not Crystal Reports - I had to use this in an old job and *hated* it!! Cheers
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I read your post title twice and both times, read it as "Reporting Fireworks". Should be the result of four stressful days with very little rest. :sigh: I guess I'll move home right now and get some sleep. :zzz:
It is a crappy thing, but it's life -^ Carlo Pallini
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I read your post title twice and both times, read it as "Reporting Fireworks". Should be the result of four stressful days with very little rest. :sigh: I guess I'll move home right now and get some sleep. :zzz:
It is a crappy thing, but it's life -^ Carlo Pallini
Hey Rajesh Aren't you in Mumbai? Hope you are doing OK? Chandra
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I've been tasked with researching some alternatives to SQL Server Reporting Services and was wondering what experiences and recommendations anyone out there has? I've also seen a couple of add-ons for reporting services, some of which look quite promising - has anyone got any experience of these? PS Ideally not Crystal Reports - I had to use this in an old job and *hated* it!! Cheers
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I wrote my own.
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I have discovered an etch-a-sketch to be more usable and informative. :)
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((lambda (x) `((lambda (x) ,x) ',x)) '`((lambda (x) ,x) ',x))It's easy to write your own, so I have found.
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It's easy to write your own, so I have found.
Software Kinetics - Moving software
The idea of reporting frameworks, is to offload the crappy work to end-users. Hence it is dumbed down. It is so dumbed down, end-users can not actually use it, so we are stuck this rubbish...
xacc.ide - now with TabsToSpaces support
IronScheme - 1.0 beta 1 - out now!
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The idea of reporting frameworks, is to offload the crappy work to end-users. Hence it is dumbed down. It is so dumbed down, end-users can not actually use it, so we are stuck this rubbish...
xacc.ide - now with TabsToSpaces support
IronScheme - 1.0 beta 1 - out now!
((lambda (x) `((lambda (x) ,x) ',x)) '`((lambda (x) ,x) ',x))After a brief experience with Crystal I decide wrote my own engine, it can product stunning reports, which hardly any effort, but using c# as the driving language. I aggree these tools are aimed for the users, and trying to simplfy creating reports actually complicates the UI, it seems no software house can solve this problem.
Software Kinetics - Moving software
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I've been tasked with researching some alternatives to SQL Server Reporting Services and was wondering what experiences and recommendations anyone out there has? I've also seen a couple of add-ons for reporting services, some of which look quite promising - has anyone got any experience of these? PS Ideally not Crystal Reports - I had to use this in an old job and *hated* it!! Cheers
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I've been tasked with researching some alternatives to SQL Server Reporting Services and was wondering what experiences and recommendations anyone out there has? I've also seen a couple of add-ons for reporting services, some of which look quite promising - has anyone got any experience of these? PS Ideally not Crystal Reports - I had to use this in an old job and *hated* it!! Cheers
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There's active reports. What about reporting services don't they like?
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I've been tasked with researching some alternatives to SQL Server Reporting Services and was wondering what experiences and recommendations anyone out there has? I've also seen a couple of add-ons for reporting services, some of which look quite promising - has anyone got any experience of these? PS Ideally not Crystal Reports - I had to use this in an old job and *hated* it!! Cheers
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moon_stick wrote:
I've been tasked with
Aaaargh! :mad: Noooooo!
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moon_stick wrote:
I've been tasked with
Aaaargh! :mad: Noooooo!
Steve_Harris wrote:
I've been tasked with Aaaargh! Mad Noooooo!
Task is a verb is it not? Past present tense? Am I missing something!? ;)
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I've been tasked with researching some alternatives to SQL Server Reporting Services and was wondering what experiences and recommendations anyone out there has? I've also seen a couple of add-ons for reporting services, some of which look quite promising - has anyone got any experience of these? PS Ideally not Crystal Reports - I had to use this in an old job and *hated* it!! Cheers
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Steve_Harris wrote:
I've been tasked with Aaaargh! Mad Noooooo!
Task is a verb is it not? Past present tense? Am I missing something!? ;)
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moon_stick wrote:
Task is a verb is it not?
No it isn't! Task is a noun not a verb. :D What's wrong with "I was given the job of ....."
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moon_stick wrote:
Task is a verb is it not?
No it isn't! Task is a noun not a verb. :D What's wrong with "I was given the job of ....."
Hmmm, OED appears to contradict... task • noun a piece of work to be done. • verb 1 (task with) assign (a task) to. 2 make great demands on. — PHRASES take to task reprimand or criticize. — ORIGIN Old French tasche, from Latin taxare ‘censure, charge’.
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Steve_Harris wrote:
I've been tasked with Aaaargh! Mad Noooooo!
Task is a verb is it not? Past present tense? Am I missing something!? ;)
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I've been tasked with researching some alternatives to SQL Server Reporting Services and was wondering what experiences and recommendations anyone out there has? I've also seen a couple of add-ons for reporting services, some of which look quite promising - has anyone got any experience of these? PS Ideally not Crystal Reports - I had to use this in an old job and *hated* it!! Cheers
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moon_stick wrote:
I've been tasked with researching some alternatives to SQL Server Reporting Services...
My condolences as you have been sent on a fool's errand. ;P Btw, have you looked into Cognos?
The world is a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. —Sean O’Casey, Playwright
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moon_stick wrote:
Task is a verb is it not?
No it isn't! Task is a noun not a verb. :D What's wrong with "I was given the job of ....."
'Tasking' someone or being 'tasked' is military and project management speak. Gee, have you not dialed in on these new old terms. You're wasting our cycles.
The world is a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. —Sean O’Casey, Playwright
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Hmmm, OED appears to contradict... task • noun a piece of work to be done. • verb 1 (task with) assign (a task) to. 2 make great demands on. — PHRASES take to task reprimand or criticize. — ORIGIN Old French tasche, from Latin taxare ‘censure, charge’.
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Verbing of nouns is a vile creeping Americanization and should be stamped out lest the evil persist. Plus "tasked with" sounds horrible... X|
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Verbing of nouns is a vile creeping Americanization and should be stamped out lest the evil persist. Plus "tasked with" sounds horrible... X|
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I've been tasked with researching some alternatives to SQL Server Reporting Services and was wondering what experiences and recommendations anyone out there has? I've also seen a couple of add-ons for reporting services, some of which look quite promising - has anyone got any experience of these? PS Ideally not Crystal Reports - I had to use this in an old job and *hated* it!! Cheers
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About 4 years ago we had to choose a new reporting engine to get away from the horrifying abomination that was Crystal Reports and the even more horrifying company and their insane policies that published CR at the time. We tried ActiveReports and settled on it, then halfway through production realized how primitive and limited it was and by good fortune stumbled across DevExpress XtraReports which we've used since then. However, time marches on and now I've noticed that Telerik has what appears to be a pretty good reporting component and I've not looked at ActiveReports since so perhaps they've matured the product greatly. The thing I like about XtraReports is it has a great end user report designer which is royalty free and very easy to wire up if you want to give end users the ability to create or modify reports. Also it supports C# behind the report right in the end user designer so you can come up with some pretty sophisticated stuff. If I were starting over again I'd have a look at those three and evaluate them all.
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I've been tasked with researching some alternatives to SQL Server Reporting Services and was wondering what experiences and recommendations anyone out there has? I've also seen a couple of add-ons for reporting services, some of which look quite promising - has anyone got any experience of these? PS Ideally not Crystal Reports - I had to use this in an old job and *hated* it!! Cheers
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Xcelsius, Access, even Excel but remember this - never stray to the dark side (i.e. avoid Crystal).
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.(Winston Churchill)
