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rraehal
01-21-2004, 06:13 PM
I have Crystal Reports Installed on My Webserver. Windows 2000, IIS 5, PHP, MySQL, etc....

I have set up CR to connect to a MySQL database. Unfortunatly I was forced to use ODBC. The problem is this:

When I use SQL to access my databases, I can pull 75 full records in .2 secords according to SQL. When I use CR9 to pull the report it takes about 3 or 4 seconds to pull 2 pieces of data (username - 25 CHAR and accesslevel - Number) from single records. (75*3=150) It takes me about 2 minuets to generate a 2 page report. It is fatser for me to look at the SQL tables and print them at this point.

The question I have is this due to the fact that I am using ODBC with CR9 or should I look for some options to speed things up.

I am using CR for the first time. I am going to connect to a database at a remote location that is ran by Oracle when I have learned what I need to know. If this slow data retrieval is going to continue I may need to do something else before generating these custom reports.

slam
01-21-2004, 06:22 PM
we use custom crystal reports with our accounting software and some of the reports take more than 15 minutes to complete.
I wish I knew what was taking so long. Just thought I'd warn you. Your reports need to be designed well or you will WAIT.

rraehal
01-22-2004, 05:01 PM
Well,

I have been experimenting. I have re-indexed my tables, created new index from different columns, deleted and recreated tables, and noting seems to speed this up.

I asked a DBA last night and she responded the same way you did. CR is slow at times.