Migrating from Crystal to SSRS questions

Hi all,
Our company is considering converting all our reports from Crystal to SSRS.
We have done a fair bit of research. I have a number of questions that I
can't find answers to. If anyone with experience using the software could
help me out with some answers, I'd be most grateful.
1. Can you save data with a report? or do you have to connect to data every
time you run a report?
2. I've heard when scrolling a matrix report that the row heading overlaps
values when scrolling and looks very messy. Is this true and is there a way
to stop it happening as a lot of our reports are Matrix based?
3. Is there an equivalent to Crystal's Group Explorer, for just viewing a
certain group?
4. With regards date formatting we have heard it defaults to US date. Is it
possible to permanently overide this or do you have to do it manually for
each report?
Many thanks
JHJH,
I'm having some difficulty getting this feature to work accross the
entire row header. But, what I've found out so far is RS2005 does
offer the feature, but it's not very intuitive to use. The only way
I've found it to work (somewhat) is
1. Add a group to your Matrix/Table.
2. Edit the group by right-clicking the group text-box.
3. Check the box at the bottom of the General tab for "Group header
should remain visible while scrolling".
I haven't figured out yet how to select the entire row (which in my
case contains about 15 measures) and set the row to freeze like in
excel. I even tried to add subsequent groups as separate
measures...can't figure that one out either.
Corey
JH wrote:
> Hi all,
> Our company is considering converting all our reports from Crystal to SSRS.
> We have done a fair bit of research. I have a number of questions that I
> can't find answers to. If anyone with experience using the software could
> help me out with some answers, I'd be most grateful.
> 1. Can you save data with a report? or do you have to connect to data every
> time you run a report?
> 2. I've heard when scrolling a matrix report that the row heading overlaps
> values when scrolling and looks very messy. Is this true and is there a way
> to stop it happening as a lot of our reports are Matrix based?
> 3. Is there an equivalent to Crystal's Group Explorer, for just viewing a
> certain group?
> 4. With regards date formatting we have heard it defaults to US date. Is it
> possible to permanently overide this or do you have to do it manually for
> each report?
> Many thanks
> JH

Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0" has not been registered

I'm trying to import an access database into a sql express database (32 bit system) and get the following error

Msg 7403, Level 16, State 1, Line 1

The OLE DB provider "Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0" has not been registered.

my script is as follows

SELECT *

FROM OPENDATASOURCE(

'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0',

'Data Source="k:\armycwy.mdb";

User ID=Admin;Password='

)...CWAM_ROSTER

Anyone got an idea what is wrong?

TIA

Kevin

I noticed you mentioned 32-bit: is everything 32-bit - i.e. tha machine, Windows, and SQL Express, or is something perhaps 64-bit? We saw similar issues if running 32-bit SQL Server/SQL Express on a 64-bit machine (or vice versa).

What is the Windows version - e.g., XP, Winwdows Server 2000, 2003, etc.?

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hi kevin,

pleas try downloading and installing the latest driver

found on this site

http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/mdac/downloads/default.aspx

Joey