Data eplorer DBxtra

Just found a very nice tool for data exploring, filtering and report creation.
Connects to almost any database.
Can create very fast and complete reports.
You even can schedule reports.Yeah, it's called reporting services...|||Even if you could get DBxtra to work, it is quite lame compared to Reporting Services. DBxtra seems more like a sub-set of the more commonly used features from Crystal Reports.

-PatP|||Pat & Brett, I haven't had a chance to play around with reporting services. Do both of you recommend it?|||There's no majik bullet for reporting, but Reporting Services is very, very good. If you have only Windoze hosted (or at least ODBC accessible) tools to report from, Reporting Services is probably as good as you'll find.

-PatP|||Pat & Brett, I haven't had a chance to play around with reporting services. Do both of you recommend it?

Getting server support (that's their gig) to get anything done, that a vp is not smashing them over the head, is not on their radar...I'm still waiting..

BUT...if it's like everything else...you can build it better and more customiozable...think about it...take dynamic to the nth level...

That's all the f'n wizards do...|||Thanks, I'll check it out and see what it's all about.

Data Connections for SQL Server Express in Visual Studio Express

I have an Excel add-in that connects to a SQL Server Express 2005
database. I've decided to create a configuration piece for this add-in
in Visual Studio 2005 Express. I added a data connection using the data
connection wizard and all appeared to go well. Anyways when I attempt
to open SQL Server Express to administer the database, it was corrupted
and I had to restore it.

I eventually got it to work correctly (I'm pretty sure I followed
pretty much the same steps as before), but I was just wondering if
anyone had experienced problems like this? I find it a bit scary that
it may be that easy to corrupt the database by just creating a data
connection.Whats the error message of the database, that you mean that the db is
corrupt ? Maybe you did something wrong in there. The be would be to
post you used code here as well as the error message you are facing.

HTH, jens Suessmeyer.|||I have to apologize -- I can't recreate the error and I didn't write
the orginal error message down.

If I see it again I will post. Thanks for your response.

Crazy

Jens wrote:
> Whats the error message of the database, that you mean that the db is
> corrupt ? Maybe you did something wrong in there. The be would be to
> post you used code here as well as the error message you are facing.
> HTH, jens Suessmeyer.