Review on Report Generators
Axel Sander sought a usable Windows report generator for a 7.3x server on Sun, with German support, and asked about reviews. David Williams suggested Hummingbird BiQuery and c haarmeyer suggested Crystal Reports. Axel replied that Crystal filters on the client side, fetching whole tables, which hurts network and performance. No clear recommendation resulted.
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Hi, I'm looking for a _useable_ report generator running on on a Windows system while the 7.3x DS is doing its work on a sun. Is there any review on this software on the net or any magazine? The Software should support the german language (but I would give it a try if it supports 'umlauts'). Reading this newsgroup showed up serious problems on Crystal reports and I got hints on Sybase Infomaker and Informix Visionary. Or should I give this up immediately and use Excel + VBA instead? Any more hints? TIA Axel
In article <88cbsn$ao7$2@bnews.gigabell.net>, Axel Sander <axsander@okay.net> writes >Hi, > >I'm looking for a _useable_ report generator running on on a Windows system >while the 7.3x DS is doing its work on a sun. > >Is there any review on this software on the net or any magazine? >The Software should support the german language (but I would give it a try >if it supports 'umlauts'). > >Reading this newsgroup showed up serious problems on Crystal reports and I >got hints on Sybase Infomaker and Informix Visionary. > >Or should I give this up immediately and use Excel + VBA instead? > >Any more hints? > try Hummingbird at http://www.hummingbird.com/ They have a product called BiQuery >TIA > >Axel > -- David Williams
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000 02:26:01 +0000, David Williams <djw@smooth1.demon.co.uk> wrote: > try Hummingbird at > > http://www.hummingbird.com/ THX, I'll take a look Axel
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On Thu, 17 Feb 2000 20:30:52 -0800, c haarmeyer <craighNOcrSPAM@calweb.com.invalid> wrote: >how about crystal reports? Was just in another thread: It does all the filtering on the client side, so if you say "select * from xxx where customer=yyy" it would create a statement "select * from xxx" and filters for the customer by itself instead let the database server do it. This will kill network and performance on larger tables. Axel