Thread: new survey idea

What 3rd Party Reporting Tool Do You Use With PostgreSQL?

Crystal Reports
Cognos ReportNet
JasperReports
MicroStrategy
OpenReports
Home Brew System


Any others?



Robert Treat
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Robert,

> Any others?

OpenOffice.org
MS Office
ReKall

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Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-www-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-www-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Josh Berkus
> Sent: 01 March 2006 02:55
> To: pgsql-www@postgresql.org
> Cc: Robert Treat
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] new survey idea
>
> Robert,
>
> > Any others?
>
> OpenOffice.org
> MS Office

MS Office doesn't include a reporting tool.

Regards, Dave.

> What 3rd Party Reporting Tool Do You Use With PostgreSQL?

"Do you use most" or somethingl ike that? AFAIK, we can't do
multiple-choice surveys... Unless you plan to fix that while you're at
it :-)


> Crystal Reports
> Cognos ReportNet
> JasperReports
> MicroStrategy
> OpenReports
> Home Brew System
<nitpick>strictly speaking, if it's home brew, it isn't 3rd party, is
it?</nitpick>


> Any others?

MS Reporting Services

//Magnus

> > > Any others?
> >
> > OpenOffice.org
> > MS Office
>
> MS Office doesn't include a reporting tool.

Uh, you can use Access as a reportig tool to any ODBC database, can't
you? Not a very good one, but you can create reports...

//Magnus

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Magnus Hagander [mailto:mha@sollentuna.net]
> Sent: 01 March 2006 08:25
> To: Dave Page; Josh Berkus; pgsql-www@postgresql.org
> Cc: Robert Treat
> Subject: RE: [pgsql-www] new survey idea
>
> > > > Any others?
> > >
> > > OpenOffice.org
> > > MS Office
> >
> > MS Office doesn't include a reporting tool.
>
> Uh, you can use Access as a reportig tool to any ODBC database, can't
> you? Not a very good one, but you can create reports...

You can use Excel as well, but it doesn't make it a reporting tool like
Crystal for example.

Regards, Dave

> > > > > Any others?
> > > >
> > > > OpenOffice.org
> > > > MS Office
> > >
> > > MS Office doesn't include a reporting tool.
> >
> > Uh, you can use Access as a reportig tool to any ODBC
> database, can't
> > you? Not a very good one, but you can create reports...
>
> You can use Excel as well, but it doesn't make it a reporting
> tool like Crystal for example.

Well, if the definition of "reporting tool" is "impossible to package
for automated installations, and impossible to use unless all your users
are administrators on their machines", no it's not ;-)

But seriously. Crystal comes in two flavours, I think? One client based
(that sucks beyond recognition, and can be compared to access) and one
server based (that I don't know the suckage factor of, but that I guess
you're referring to).

If it was an actual scientific survey, we'd need to clearly specify if
we were talking about server or client or hybrid products. In this case,
I really don't think it matters that much :-)

//Magnus

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Magnus Hagander [mailto:mha@sollentuna.net]
> Sent: 01 March 2006 08:45
> To: Dave Page; Josh Berkus; pgsql-www@postgresql.org
> Cc: Robert Treat
> Subject: RE: [pgsql-www] new survey idea
>
> But seriously. Crystal comes in two flavours, I think? One
> client based
> (that sucks beyond recognition, and can be compared to access) and one
> server based (that I don't know the suckage factor of, but
> that I guess
> you're referring to).

Yeah, there is a now a server based version but I've never used it. The
client version is slightly strange I grant you, but is actually very
powerful when you get the hang of it.

/D

> > But seriously. Crystal comes in two flavours, I think? One client
> > based (that sucks beyond recognition, and can be compared
> to access)
> > and one server based (that I don't know the suckage factor of, but
> > that I guess you're referring to).
>
> Yeah, there is a now a server based version but I've never
> used it. The client version is slightly strange I grant you,
> but is actually very powerful when you get the hang of it.

Oh, I hope it's good from a developer perspective, since so many ppl use
it.

It's a complete nightmare from a sysadmin perspective (in a larger
environment), though. Especialliy when you have to deal with a lot of
incompatible different versions (heard of DLL hell? This is a lot
worse..)

//Magnus

Magnus Hagander schrieb:
...
>
> Oh, I hope it's good from a developer perspective, since so many ppl use
> it.

*hahaha* if "so many ppl use it" would be sufficient as a quality
indicator, then mySQL would be the best database in the world .-)

SCNR ;)

Am Mittwoch, 1. März 2006 09:36 schrieb Dave Page:
> You can use Excel as well, but it doesn't make it a reporting tool like
> Crystal for example.

It would be up to the voters to determine what they consider to be a reporting
tool in their minds.

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Eisentraut [mailto:peter_e@gmx.net]
> Sent: 01 March 2006 12:12
> To: pgsql-www@postgresql.org
> Cc: Dave Page; Magnus Hagander; Josh Berkus; Robert Treat
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] new survey idea
>
> Am Mittwoch, 1. März 2006 09:36 schrieb Dave Page:
> > You can use Excel as well, but it doesn't make it a
> reporting tool like
> > Crystal for example.
>
> It would be up to the voters to determine what they consider
> to be a reporting
> tool in their minds.

We have to draw the line somewhere - we only have 8 (iirc) option slots to use.

Regards, Dave.

On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 08:36:57AM -0000, Dave Page wrote:
> > Uh, you can use Access as a reportig tool to any ODBC database, can't
> > you? Not a very good one, but you can create reports...
>
> You can use Excel as well, but it doesn't make it a reporting tool like
> Crystal for example.

Yet I bet a lot of people use it as such (I uses it as an easy way to
generate graphs).
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