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It has been two years since Crystal Reports 2008 was released. It feels old now – no support for new .Net technologies, no support for new export formats, etc. So question is – when we would see any of this? Accordingly to Blair Wheadon, Product Manager in the Volume Business Unit Read more
When it comes to non-schema-bound-views (NSB View) it is important to remember that there is no schema bound between objects used in the view and metadata for a view. Let’s look at the following scenario: — Create Table_1 CREATE TABLE dbo.Table_1 (Col_A int NULL, Col_B numeric(18, 0) NULL, Col_C nvarchar(50) NULL) Read more
You will be amazed how common this question is: I have a folder with arbitrary set of SQL scripts and want to apply them all automatically. How do I do that? In other words: Having a folder – ex: C:\AutoSQLScripts – with some unknown set of SQL scripts And a SQL Instance where Read more
Did you ever noticed that after restart of the IIS ASP.Net page which has Crystal Reports Viewer would take much longer to come up? Some of it is expected since on initial start up, a number of Crystal assemblies and objects need to be created and this does take time. I Read more
Google has changed how Google Docs are exposed. As result method discussed in this article is no longer applicable. Please explore other options (ex: Google Sites). Thank you. There are plenty of presentations, documents, and spreadsheets we may want to share with the world. We can use homegrown document handling solutions, Read more
Wow! It worked… I continue my journey with Crystal Reports Viewer (CRV) inside ASP.Net pages. Topic of this post is to discuss problems and solutions related to long running queries in CRV. I would like to thank Daniel Paulsen from SAP team for his help resolving the issue discussed below. Read more
There we go again… Marketing wars… Is being Linux means replacing I with We? Accordingly to a new addition to the Mac-v-PC adv. war – Linux – “WE are Linux” – yes. Personalization in the look at the computers promoted for last few years by Apple, Microsoft, and then followed Read more