[AccessD] OT: What are you lot doing now and then?

Brett,

>> In fact I was just in a status meeting this morning where I said "It's
only a matter of time until you find me running around naked in the
streets babbling incoherently that Crystal Reports ruined my life".  Um,
I'm sorry, what was your question again? ;-) <<

A fine way to start the week: a good gut-busting laugh! Thanks.

Re your comment about SQL Reporting Services, that might be just the
ticket for companies with their own SQL Server. The project I worked
on recently rented the SQL Server capability from a web host
(CrystalTech, as it happens). The web host did not offer SQL Reporting
Services, so that option wasn't open to us.

Steve Erbach


On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 11:28:05 -0600, Brett Barabash
<BBarabash at tappeconstruction.com> wrote:
> We are just getting into full swing with VB.NET, so I haven't had much
> opportunity to play with Crystal Reports in that environment.  We use CR
> 8.5 for much of our SQL Server based reporting, and it just makes me
> appreciate the Access report designer more and more.
> 
> In fact I was just in a status meeting this morning where I said "It's
> only a matter of time until you find me running around naked in the
> streets babbling incoherently that Crystal Reports ruined my life".  Um,
> I'm sorry, what was your question again? ;-)
> 
> I guess I need to try a newer version of CR before I totally write it
> off.  My experiences to date have been really, really painful.  Maybe
> I'm just an old Access dog who needs to learn some new tricks, but I'm
> still skeptical that CR is the ticket.
> 
> SQL Server Reporting Services looks very appealing, for example.