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    <p>I've been using SSRS for a while now... and coworkers who look over my shoulder say it looks to be <em>MUCH</em> easier to do the SSRS thing than the Crystal. I've never used Crystal, so I can't tell you which is better, but I get the distinct impression that MS tried to rush SSRS out the door.</p> <p>Largest weaknesses: </p> <ul> <li>Sharing Datasets. I work in a DoD environment. 90% of my reports use a Service parameter. I get sick of typing the same query over and over again. </li> <li>Skinning. If you do the report wizard you can skin your report, but not if you do it manually? huh? I can "skin"things by selecting all the affectedfields and then setting back colors,fore colors, etc. But nowhere (atleast no where I can find) can youskin something with 1 click. </li> <li>No custom skinning. Report wizard/ manual, there's no where I can find to implement a custom skin. Would be nice to just set up something (like CSS for HTML) and then just link to it. Tools should help you by reducing your effort rather than add to said effort.</li> <li>Matrixes need better documentation. I can do VERY simple things, but once I try to get into fun/difficult things, books/the internet seem to let me down. Tables don't have this issue.</li> </ul> <p>Strengths:</p> <ul> <li>Very simple for an old SQL developer to get good reports that at least look better than the drek that dumping a restlt set to Excel provides.</li> <li>Custom sorting (use on most reports)</li> <li>Handles SP and Straight SQL. Love that I'm not locked into 1 path or the other (I've used both depending on circumstances).</li> <li>Price... once you've paid for Visual Studio/SQL Server... it's a freebie.</li> </ul> <p>My 2 cents, hope this helps you.</p>
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    1. COCrystal Reports sucks badly. See the following. http://msmvps.com/blogs/williamryan/archive/2004/11/07/18148.aspx http://secretgeek.net/CrystalDodo.asp
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