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I'm working on a small project that requires some of our users to be able to view/sort/filter and generally play around with a large amount of data. It's based on a sql server 2000 view and is something on the order of 125k rows worth of historical event data (think sports).
Normally I would turn to excel for this kind of simple manipulation, but the version of excel we use doesn't support more than 65k rows (2003). I've thought of access, but on the surface the interface seems a bit complicated.
Does anyone know of a good tool to allow these users to quickly perform these kinds of operations?
Honestly, if you're confident you could implement a solution quickly (lets say 1 hour) with excel 2007. Consider that Office 2007 costs ~ $500, and whatever your hourly rate is (lets just say $50 for kicks), then you would need to build something within 10 hours and anything over that you'd be better off going and buying Office 2007.
10 hours, that's less than 2 days of dev time. And the $500 price tag is for a new copy of office, not the upgrade version.
Sounds like it's time to upgrade.
BTW, here are some numbers of Excel 2007 limitations.
Report Builder 2.0 is an easy to use tool for creating reports.
If you install Sql Server Express 2008, you get Reporting Services for free.
This will work till you hit the size limit for Sql Express, I believe 4GB of data.
what about an intranet site?
Take a look at ASP.NET Dynamic Data websites. You should be able to create a basic site in an hour or less. They even look good out of the box.
And your users may be "dumb" but you're working for them!
A Crystal Report is not bad if you set it up with the right filters, which the users can control.
Then you can either embed in an intranet site (very easy w/visual studio), or let them view it locally with the free viewer.
If you're already using SQL server, try installing SQL server reporting services (SSRS). it allows you to quickly generate reports for your users and publish them on a web interface, or it even has a plugin for the browser called a Report Builder, which allows users to create their own reports. If the users are proficient in excel, then Report Builder would be an easy jump for them to make.
Create a small windows app, having just 1 gridview on it, with sorting / paging etc. enabled?
If you end up doing some sort of website, check out the Google visualization API for some really spiffy graphs and charts.
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The question i have is many fold.
So I work IT for this company. It’s a small company. Very small. They have an ancient ordering system that uses MSACCESS and was built in Visual Basic. I’ve been tasked with developing a new ordering system that processes orders as well as take in orders online.
I’ve created an order form in Excel with all the proper calculations that need to be made as sort of a foundation. I’ve found a service called SpreadsheetConverter that converts it to HTML or if I’d like Node.JS. But to be completely honest I have no idea what to do with Node.JS. I have some knowledge of VB and i’m (sort of) starting to understand databases.
My question is where would the best place to start if I wanted to build an application that can take in orders, store/retrieve customer data (autofill?), store order information into a database so i can retrieve them. The order system has to customly tailored to this company, they make Doors, so the calculations deal a lot with sizes and styles.
I have all the calculations i need. Basically where should i start if I want to build a UI, write simple code, and have it interact with a database. I’ve checked out Xojo, I have a Mac so i cant use Visual Basic. Where should i look to start a database?
Or is it possible to connect the Node.JS that spreadsheetconverter creates and connect it to something like Firebase?
I’m sorry if this all seems confusing, I basically don’t know where to start and a push in the right direction is all i need so i can narrow my focus.
Xojo might indeed be a good start for this.
Xojo includes access to a sqlite database, and you can add new records rather easily. You do need to know how to design and query an SQL db, though.
The biggest question is probably how to implement the user interface. This will be the biggest task. With Xojo, you can design it fairly easily, using its window layout editor.
Then you can either develop a monolithic desktop app, i.a. a Mac or Windows app that runs and maintains its database all on the same, single, computer. Or, if you want to allow multiple users access the database from different computers, consider writing a Web application in Xojo, which will be used through a web browser then. Most code will be the same, but testing will be a bit more complex and slower for a Web app, probably.
You would have to re-implement all your calculations in Xojo, though, as Xojo has no way to use or import Excel sheets this way.
Also, have a look at FileMaker. I have never used it but it may fit your needs.
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First, I've looked at every other stack site and I can't seem to find an very appropriate place to ask this. It's a pretty general questions, but basically, I'm wondering if Sitecore is targeted mainly at corporate users?
I've done a bit with Drupal and because it's open source of course you can install it on any shared host (at least LAMP but I guess Windows as well). I can't seem to find a lot of sites that advertize hosting for Sitecore other than the limited number on the SiteCore hosting site.
The only ones I see prices for tend to be WAY more than what you get from a shared host. IE, $100+ per month vs. ~$10-20 for your typical LAMP Shared host.
I'm about to get some Sitecore work at my company, and wondering if I'm going to be able to do any playing on my own with Sitecore outside of work, but it seems this is something you don't play with unless you have an actual license and host, unless there's some test environment one can set up on your local box, or is this not feasible?
As you can see, these are fairly basic questions, but I could not find good immediate answers to them while searching, so any good basic primer or info would be great!
Sitecore is an enterprise level web content management system (or Customer Engagement Platform as they call it).
The license fees vary per country and setup, but start at around $20k.
If you want to play with Sitecore as a developer, you can ask them for the Sitecore Xpress edition.
It's a free, limited release for developers.
You need to contact Sitecore and they will give it to you.
For non-commercial use you can use Sitecore Express. You'll have to contact Sitecore to get this.
This is a scaled back version though.
From their site:
Xpress is a version of Sitecore’s CMS that has been seriously scaled
back, but is ideal for developers wanting a no cost version and are OK
with the restrictions. While the enterprise scalability and
performance power has been pulled out, as well as the business
user/marketing capabilities, the developer flexibility remains.
I don't know about the cost of hosting it.
As the others have mentioned, there are ways to get the software without a license, but traditionally developers work with this with a license.
At that point, you do not need to worry about hosting, as long as you can run a .NET web application on your machine. Sitecore runs in IIS with SQL Server or Oracle databases. This allows you to do all your development and playing around on your local machine without needing to have it hosted.
In my experience, your best bet for short term hosting of Sitecore is a service like Amazon EC2. A service like this gives to access to remote server space where you can install Sitecore and all the extras you may need.
This sounds like a good fit in your case since you can start and stop the service whenever you need. This will allow you to play around with Sitecore without a large upfront investment. Also, you can always start up a new server instance whenever you need an outward facing site to show clients.
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I have been investigating options for NuGet feed hosts.
Currently, we use TeamCity to build/publish packages to TC's built-in server. For a Visual Studio package-source pointed to TC, we've found that the subscription/update process to be painfully slow -- even though our developer workstations are within the same local subnet and we have only a few dozen packages.
Other package-feed options I know about :
nw share
internal web-server(s) based on NuGet.Server
MyGet
ProGet
Does anyone have enterprise-level experience with any of these solutions ?
MyGet looks very promising, but one cause for concern is that ( at least according to their website ) only around 1500 feeds are active. If MyGet had truly caught on, it would seem that this should be 150,000 or so.
Also: is there anything in the NuGet world similar to Maven's concept of a local-only "snapshot" package engine and feed server ?
Thanks.
As one of the founders of MyGet let me take this question :-) We indeed have around 1.500 feeds hosted on our public website, we also have some enterprise users who have their own domains and are not listed here. Feel free to contact us if you require more info or want to be in touch with one of them. We're also open for just a chat so feel free.
In the Gallery (http://www.myget.org/gallery) we have famous projects like SignalR, RavenDB, Glimpse and the ASP.NET team is pushing their nightlies as well.
In the field, we see a lot of "self hosted" solutions based on NuGet.Server but these are typically smaller installations. Just as with network shares, it lacks a bit in performance when too many packages are in that feed.
Speaking to performance, our newest 2.0 release of ProGet underwent some performance enhancements, mainly caching of LDAP credentials and the fact that package data is now cached in the database, so adding packages doesn't have to rebuild the full index of packages (where previously if combined with something like 1000s of packages stored by RedGate's Deployment Manager, it would have slowed things a bit).
I'd like to add two products to the list.
Sonatype's Nexus pro - If you are running a mixed Java/.NET shop it might be a good
alternative. http://www.sonatype.com/nexus/features. I'm not sure here but since Nexus is a maven tool from beginning it would be plausible that it has some kind of snapshot support for nuget feeds as well, however not local.
Teamcity - it has built in support for nuget that integrates and works well with teamcity but it (version 7.1.4) does not support all native nuget operations like managing packages from outside teamcity and there is no easy way to proxy other feeds nor support for multiple feeds. http://jetbrains.com/teamcity
Is it possible to embed the Visual Studio 2010 report designer functionality into my WPF application?
Initially I was considering the use of Report builder, but for providing ad-hoc reporting capability from within application, I need to teach users too many steps before they start creating a simple report. So I am now thinking of simplifying it by embedding the report Designer (if it is possible), and do all the basic steps programatically and show the design surface and Data objects on the left.
Any help is appreciated.
I have not found any good way so far and decided to use Report Builder instead. The approach I took is to build a report skeleton programtically with connection and query embedded in the RDL to expose object model instead of tables and views and launching the Report Builder to open this RDL. Yes.. there is lot of overhead that I need to build a query with lot of unnecessary fields and joins and the resulting performance is terrible. In a future version I will come up asking the users the fields they need to use int he report to improve performance.
Looks like Microsoft is going to make customers pay for SSRS from 2012 version. So this choice of use SSRS may even b ruled out.
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Is there a way to easily convert Crystal Reports reports to Reporting Services RDL format?
We have quite a few reports that will be needing conversion soon.
I know about the manual process (which is basically rebuilding all your reports from scratch in SSRS), but my searches pointed to a few possibilities with automatic conversion "acceleration" with several consulting firms. (As described on .... - link broken).
Do any of you have any valid experiences or recomendations regarding this particular issue?
Are there any tools around that I do not know about?
I have searched previously for this, with no luck. There does not seem to be any tools available for this conversion, the manual method thereby becomes the only method. And yes, there are consulting firms who will do the manual work for you, but they still do it manually.
Crystal Reports and Reporting Services have different architectural styles, making it a difficult task for a conversion tool, so I view it as unlikely that someone will build one anytime soon.
I work for one of those consulting firms mentioned by Carlton, and let me tell you that we are the only company to have developed an in-house (proprietary) tool that helps us jump start the conversion process from RPTs to RDLs. Our current tool only supports Crystal Rpts 9 and older, and the RDL 2000 and 2005 formats.
I have done several of these conversion projects myself, and there are lots of things that cannot be automatically converted due to the nature of each product. Things like expressions, data source information, and dataset queries just cannot be automagically "translated" by a tool.
Cheers.
An alternative would be to use a much cheaper reporting solution which can read Crystal Reports templates, such as (our very own) Java-based i-net Clear Reports (used to be i-net Crystal-Clear).
Note that unlike most solutions, we do NOT lose information such as data source information, formulas, SQL expressions, etc. from the original templates. Even charts are converted quite well.
Also, we now offer a fully functional, free report designer (which can also run reports).
My original VB code was converted to C#. See RptToXml.
We're in a very similar situation at the moment. Dozens of crystal reports in place and we're shifting to Reporting Services (mainly for its ease of deployment and more flexible UI for the end user) - our solution is to leave them be, but anything new is being created in RptgSvcs. Ideally we'd translate them, but the .rpt format is too opaque.
In my search I got to know a product of KTL Solutions with the name KTL Crystal Converter which is capable of converting a Crystal report to SSRS.
As suggested by Microsoft you may try any of the following migration tools for SAP Crystal Reports to SSRS conversion:
Hitachi Consulting http://www.hitachiconsulting.com/page.cfm?ID=bi
TCS http://www.tcs.com/Microsoft2005Launch/download/Microsoft_Recast.pdf
Sonata Software Ltd. http://microsoftcc.sonata-software.com/html/mcc_bi.htm
KTL Solutions http://www.ktlsolutions.com/t-crystalconverter.aspx
90DegreeSoftware http://www.90degreesoftware.com
Jeff-Net http://www.rpttosql.com/index.html
Neudesic http://www.neudesic.com
PLUS-IT http://www.plus-it.de