I hate Reports. Reports as in Crystal Reports, Sql Server Reporting Services.

I was pondering over the question, why do I hate reports? this entire day. Do I simple hate them? Did it have something to do with the way I look at them? Is it because, I have always seen it in the wrong way? Was it that I hated it from the first that I am getting an aversion towards it?

My first work with reports was in 2007. I really hated the way Crystal Reports did the formatting. Even though, I had very little space between the columns, it always rendered it with more space, and I would be questioned on why there was more space? How will I know? That would be my answer. Only when I had one column laid literally over the other, did it give a small space. It all started there! And it is still continuing.

I thought only Crystal Reports was like that! Now SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services) is even more terrible. I understand that Reports are more important requirements in any project. They are the way of letting people see, decide and plan on what has to be done. Any software solution provider will have reporting requirements that need to be done. I tried to even start reading books on Reports, but something is wrong in the way that I understand them. I write SQL, but somehow, I hate it when it comes to reports. It must be the way I perceive it, but really, Reports / Data Analysis is really not my cup of tea! I really can’t get over this feeling. I want to learn it, but simply I can’t.

I hate you Reports! But somehow, I have to do it! Get it done!

Monday morning, felt Tom miserable…

So is the case with me. Today is monday and I feel as if the whole world is enjoying while I am grunting. When I left home to office, I was feeling even worse, my roomies, Sri and Sakthi were sleeping comfortably, while I have to rush to office. Working at an office that takes 1 hour to reach is really terrible. Can’t blame it anybody but myself for still putting up at a rented house far away from office. There are pros and cons to this.

On the pros first,

• you have the freedom to leave office early saying that you have to travel long.
• you never need to come to office on saturday or sunday for a production support and put that task on the person residing nearer to office.
• you get a topic to discuss about which is this post.

On the cons,

• you have to push yourself to start early.
• there are the evils of public transportation spoiling your mood.
• missing the early morning sleep… heavens….

Here I am writing on about a spoiled monday morning. Friday… where are you?

Right now, I am feeling terribly bored. My mind is wavering and I am loosing concentration. I am loosely typing whatever comes to my mind. Sometimes (many times) I feel like it. At the end of this boredom, a lot of fresh thoughts come to my mind. Whatever I have been pondering for a long time, seems solvable. New solutions and thoughts. Quiet weird behavior of my wired brain!

Do some of you also feel so. A period of lull lasting just over 4 hours and then a refreshing mind. Whatever amount of caffeine or tea, can’t get the lull mood out. At office, I am not supposed to waste time blogging. But my mind fails me. I right now want to get over it.

Let’s see what happens!