Comments on: Damn you, Crystal Reports!

By: OJ

OJ — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 03:52:04 +0000

@Joe: Sorry for the slow response.
In all honesty, I don’t think I’ve found one “ideal” or “catch-all” reporting solution. For the systems I am working on, MS’s Reporting Services which come out of the box with SQL Server is more than enough. This doesn’t really do a great job for ad-hoc reporting though. C.R. is probably better for that, but it’s an absolute nightmare to use and configure.
For me, if you’re looking to provide a known set of reports, then Reporting Services is the best option that I’ve found.
Hope that helps! Thanks for the comment

By: OJ

OJ — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 03:52:00 +0000

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 10:50:13 +0000

Hi OJ,
You said; “Thankfully we’re doing away with Crystal Reports for the work I’m doing. We’ll be using something else which is much easier to work with. ”
Please tell me what you are using instead. I ‘d like to be armed with an alternative in case the man suggests C.R.

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 10:50:00 +0000

By: OJ

OJ — Sat, 09 May 2009 01:32:26 +0000

@Kaz: wow, a blast from the past! Glad to hear that you managed to find this site via Google. Only did the name change a couple of weeks back (if that).

Thankfully we’re doing away with Crystal Reports for the work I’m doing. We’ll be using something else which is much easier to work with. Thank God my client listens to me

I wish C.R. would just sod off and die.

By: OJ

OJ — Sat, 09 May 2009 01:32:00 +0000

@Kaz: wow, a blast from the past! Glad to hear that you managed to find this site via Google. Only did the name change a couple of weeks back (if that).

Thankfully we’re doing away with Crystal Reports for the work I’m doing. We’ll be using something else which is much easier to work with. Thank God my client listens to me

I wish C.R. would just sod off and die.

By: Kaz

Kaz — Fri, 08 May 2009 07:04:49 +0000

Installing it is just the beginning of the pain. When I signed up for my current job, they didn’t warn me about all the goddam Crystal Reports. How can such a retarded product still be so widely used??

Venting my frustration this afternoon, I typed “crystal reports” followed by various expletives into Google. (Yes OJ, that’s how I found this page! Though I wasn’t sure it was yours at first – I haven’t checked out your blog since the blackapache days…)

Anyway, here are some of the delightful things other Crystal users have said:

(i) Crystal Reports is a fat stupid dodo. With few natural predators, it’s been staggering around the business reporting islands for 10 versions now, only getting fatter and stupider.
(ii) Crystal reports is a piece of shit, old junk not worth the disc it’s burned to.
(iii) Crystal Reports has still managed to combine a race-horse-price with lame-donkey-performance.
(iv) I’d rather shit out shards of glass than use crystal reports.
(v) Yes, having dealt with Crystal Reports in several forms, I can say it’s totally a pile of dog shit.
(vi) Every time someone writes a Crystal report, God kills a kitten. No shit. Don’t do it.

I feel your pain OJ.

By: Kaz

Kaz — Fri, 08 May 2009 07:04:00 +0000

Anyway, here are some of the delightful things other Crystal users have said:

I feel your pain OJ.

By: OJ

OJ — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:13:51 +0000

@JoCo: My thoughts exactly It’s not like you end up with Crysis or VS2010. Crystal f**king reports!

By: OJ

OJ — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:13:00 +0000

@JoCo: My thoughts exactly It’s not like you end up with Crysis or VS2010. Crystal f**king reports!