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Crystal Report 10 How to Reset all Subquerys

Asked by: augustus3

I am running a Crystal Report 10, connected through ODBC to an MS SQL 2000 database.  I set the new location of all the main tables to the new location and I am having to go through the code and resetting every Subquery's SQL.  The help screen suggested a way to reset all the subqueries that did not work.  How do I reset globally all the subqueries?

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by: mlmccPosted on 2009-11-06 at 15:56:35ID: 25764140

Are you using a COMMAND as the data source?

I don't think there is any easy way to reset the subqueries since Crystak doesn't really recognize that it is there.

mlmcc

 

by: augustus3Posted on 2009-11-12 at 11:33:55ID: 25807975

In response to : Are you using a COMMAND as the data source?

I am not sure how I would use COMMAND as the data source.  If that means am I using A SQL Server-Based Stored Procedure then No not at this time.  Otherwise I am not sure what you are asking.?  Or do you mean am I connecting to the SQL server through an ODBC connection?

Here are the issues we are facing:

We have reports that were written in Crystal Report 8.5 and run on an Informix 7x database using AIX.  

The database has been migrated to a Windows 2003 server, running SQL Server 2000 database and we are using the same reports (written in 8.5) with Crystal Report 10x.

The report that I am testing has a main Query (which I connected/"SET" to a new location, new database, same tables names and columns).  Then I have some 50 plus subroutines that need to be reset.  I open the SQL box of the subquery1, I get a query that does not appear to be joined to anything or even each other.

-- BEFORE reset -----------------------------------
SELECT
[subquerytable1].[ColumnName1],
[subquerytable2].[ColumnName2],
[subquerytable3].[ColumnName3],
[subquerytable4].[ColumnName4],
[subquerytable1].[ColumnName5],
[subquerytable1].[ColumnName6],
[subquerytable1].[ColumnName7],
[subquerytable5].[ColumnName8],
[subquerytable1].[ColumnName9],
[subquerytable1].[ColumnName10]
FROM [subquerytable1] subquerytable1,
  outer [subquerytable4] [subquerytable4],
  outer [subquerytable3] [subquerytable3],
  outer [subquerytable5] [subquerytable5],
  outer [subquerytable2] [subquerytable2]
WHERE  subquerytable1.[ColumnName1]=11111

-- AFTER Reset -----------------------------------
SELECT
[subquerytable1].[ColumnName1],
[subquerytable2].[ColumnName2],
[subquerytable3].[ColumnName3],
[subquerytable4].[ColumnName4],
[subquerytable1].[ColumnName5],
[subquerytable1].[ColumnName6],
[subquerytable1].[ColumnName7],
[subquerytable5].[ColumnName8],
[subquerytable1].[ColumnName9],
[subquerytable1].[ColumnName10]
FROM (((DatabaseName.[dbo].[subquerytable1] [subquerytable1]
INNER JOIN [DatabaseName].[dbo].[subquerytable4] [subquerytable4]
 ON [subquerytable1].[BCode1]=[subquerytable4].[BCode4)
INNER JOIN [DatabaseName].[dbo].[subquerytable3] [subquerytable3]
 ON [subquerytable1].[LCode1]=[subquerytable3].[LCode3])
INNER JOIN [DatabaseName].[dbo].[subquerytable5] [subquerytable5]
 ON [subquerytable1].[MCode1]=[subquerytable5].[MCode5])
INNER JOIN [DatabaseName].[dbo].[subquerytable2] [subquerytable2]
 ON [subquerytable1].[RCode1]=[subquerytable2].[RCode2]
WHERE [subquerytable1].[ColumnName1]=11111
----------------------------------------------------------------------

I am wondering if I have to reset all 50 plus subquery SQL Statements just to make this report run.  This is not the only report, and every one of the reports I will need to run has many subqueries.  

I am looking for a Global Reset All SubQuery command button.

Somewhere I read that Subreports should not be used anymore, instead Stored Procedures need to be called in to replace the subqueries.  I plan to look into some basic Subquery/Stored Proc replaced report soon.

Is this a viable route to take, basically rewriting all the reports and their subqueries?

Thanks for your input.

 

by: mlmccPosted on 2009-11-12 at 16:24:31ID: 25810300

Subreports have a place and it really depends on what you are trying to accomplish with them.

A COMMAND is a new feature added with CR9 so since these are CR8.5 reports you aren't using one.

I don't follow the subquery issue.  The query you showed  after reset is joined though the joins have been changed to INNER instead of OUTER.

Do you have subreports that use other queries that need to be changed?

mlmcc

 

by: augustus3Posted on 2009-12-01 at 14:05:58ID: 25947256

Ive just now been able to get back to this question.  Weve not found a way to reset all the sub-queries.  

The original Crystal Reports were part of a legacy commercial product that is no longer available.  We exported our data to a new database and were hoping that we would be able to run the reports as part of a way to confirm that the data export was correctly done, i.e., Crystal 8.5 on old database gives same result as Crystal 10 on new database.  

The reports worked by passing parameters to sub-queries.  As we worked through manually resetting each sub-query we discovered errors which led us to our solution.

It turned out to be a result of Crystal Reports being purchased a couple of times and some of the on-line documentation/help being buried in the process.  The solution required this registry fix:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Crystal Decisions\10.0\Crystal Reports\Database\QueryBuilder\JoinBuilder]

SQLServerJoinBuilder=sqlsrv32

as documented here:

http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/boc/index?rid=/library/uuid/80ab7adc-971e-2b10-0cad-a17dd0393d93&overridelayout=true

So weve now confirmed that Crystal 8.5 on old database gives same result as Crystal 10 on new database.  

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