“Login Failed” error to Crystal Reports

A very interesting error solution today. Whilst I have seen the error ‘Login Failed’ all so many times over the years I have been using Crystal Reports. I had a very interesting experience today when I could not pinpoint what was causing it. Nothing to do with matching/ mismatch of login details. Instead, I discovered that it was my Data Source Name connection that was causing the issue all along. cutting a long story short, here is what I did. Simply created a new one, tried it and I could connect with no problem from my CR to SQL Database. Good stuff.
Anyone had a look at the Crystal Reports 14 Beta yet? Pretty cool actually, it looks like it has addressed a few of the stability issues that we had in 12. Personally I still like to work in CR11. It had a few pluses that I can not work without. A bit to do with Excel formating. Come on SAP, get it together .
RemiCrystal has had its fair share of bugs in working with the different versions of Crystal. I had initially preffered to focus on our Crystal Reports 12 users and this has failed to get me anywhere. A lot of users of CR11 have demanded compatibility and we had no choice but to give up . We got to love the remiWare team, such quick turn around.
As well as introducing the SSRS compatibility aspect, we hope to address a lot of the trends in the market. Who knows what is in store for us next. I am certainly up for a challenge. Windows mobile apps may be our next move but lets wait and see.

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