Who uses Crystal Reports?

DaveH

DaveH

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Just wondering what you thought about it.

Does it have drivers to hook into mysql?

Any particular plusses or minuses? I see it has some fancy graphs, plus you can embed it into excel and word, etc.

Since it lets the users make their own reports, does it up the support time?

Thanks.
 
There should be some freeware or cheap drivers for Crystal to work with MySQL. If you can master Crystal Reports, especially the web piece, you can make at least into the high five figures in salary, or more if you put yourself out there as a Crystal consultant.
 
Doesn't MYSQL support ODBC? If so you can access the MYSQL databases through it. If you already have Word and Excel then a normal user can make just about any graph and embed it into any other Microsoft Product.

As for Crystal Reports.
Plus: Very intuitive and professional tool.
Minus: Very large runtimes (but the last version I worked on was 8, now I work in .NET so they might have worked on that)
 
Nordic Viking said:
Doesn't MYSQL support ODBC? If so you can access the MYSQL databases through it. If you already have Word and Excel then a normal user can make just about any graph and embed it into any other Microsoft Product.

As for Crystal Reports.
Plus: Very intuitive and professional tool.
Minus: Very large runtimes (but the last version I worked on was 8, now I work in .NET so they might have worked on that)
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Good point. MySQL should be ODBC compliant.
 
> MySQL should be ODBC

Yep, duh.

Is .NET just Microsofts version of a network accesable database? Or is there other components to .Net?
 
DaveH said:
> MySQL should be ODBC

Yep, duh.

Is .NET just Microsofts version of a network accesable database? Or is there other components to .Net?
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There are actually three data components to .NET. Data reader, data adapter, and data provider. When you configure these components, you should get a real time connection to the tabular data stream within a data source.

It is only with great difficulty that I have found the ODBC adapter for .NET, as it was in the Beta, but not the "gold" releases. I think ODBC is superceded, or at least subjugated in .NET, and you now have to search for the ODBC provider.
 
DaveH said:
> MySQL should be ODBC

Yep, duh.

Is .NET just Microsofts version of a network accesable database? Or is there other components to .Net?
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.NET is comprised of several language tools (C++,C#, VB and J#) which use 1 of the 2 available methods of data access to read/write to databases).

1. Microsoft provides native support to their SQL Server (System.Data.SqlClient)
2. or to many other databases via OleDb (System.Data.Oledb). If you're going to access an ODBC source then you'll be using OleDb.
 
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