The issue we have come across it that we have found Crystal reports are running 50-100% slower on the server compared to running the same report on a Windows 7 workstation. It is possible that this problem has existed for a long time. We put up a new 2012 R2 server the other day and we decided to see if performance was improved. We found the opposite of what we expected.
We have run the report from a terminal session and directly on the server console. We have run from both a physical and virtual server and got the same results.
Running the report on my workstation the status bar shows approximately 5,000 records read for every update. Running the report on the server shows approximately 2,000 records for every update.
On both my workstation and the server it shows the Crystal properties as:
Database Type: ODBC (RDO)
Server Name: Crystal
Database: Data
Use DSN Default Properties: True
We are running Crystal version 11.5.12.1838. Same result with Crystal 14.0.4.738.
Any suggestions on where to start to determine the cause of this? Thanks.
