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[quote user="David Singleton"]I was working on a blog about this, so I'll finish it today. But in general, this is a very hot topic here since the days of NOLUG first thing to do is to take a look at the old posts: go here http://www.mbsonline.org/forum/search.asp and enter native sql there...
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Using : 4.0 (sp3) - SQL 2005 (x64 - sp1) Our database have aprox. 50 companies. The objective with SQL reporting services is to provide a selection of reports on a citrix based platform for our customers. Security is well taken care of in citrix. The tables in Navison, running on SQL, is named by using...
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Microsoft SQL Reporting Services is a pretty interesting reporting tool but it is not a specific Navision reporting tool; it is a reporting tool for Microsoft SQL Server. All Navision reports are currently developed in the internal Navision reporting tool, so the backside of Reporting Services is that...
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Another thing to consider is your report requirements as Colin said but not only "Excel reports". Navision native reports are rather simple and users needs to login to Navision to view the reports. SQL server offers Reporting Services, a reporting tool very different from the reporting tool...
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@David I agree that in Navision the flowfields are indeed very powerful and useful. However, the way they have been implemented in SQL causes a lot of extra overhead when you are writing to the database. Each key which uses SIFT creates another table in SQL which needs to get updated via a trigger when...
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Oddly Navision UK announced something about this back in 1998 when SQL was getting ready to hit the streets, then a year later denied it. I think that having one set of SQL reports in standard format that can work accross all platforms is a great step forward, and definitely somethign that we are all...
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Hi all, will the SQL Reporting Services be the next Report Designer for Navision (and the other Dynamics Products)[?] I guess we will find out sooner or later. But it allready seems to be an alternative. Here you can download sample reports: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=d81722ce...
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Now that sounds pretty interesting, as it stands now, any time someone needs a report, they ask me and I find what they need and print it out. More automated reporting and interactive reports sound very interesting.
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Do not forget that there will be Webservices which can be used to feed the Reporting services in MS SQL... it means, you can still use FlowFields... :-)
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[?] [?] [?] Thomas, I don't understand your comments, I have been working with FowFields for 15 years, and find them to be one of the greatest features of Navision, why would you say otherwise?