Question : Expert opinion and experience on slow performance and CR hotfix(es)

After plowing through many little issues in development, I now face a strange performance slowdown with my web application using CR and export to PDF.

I have a public facing web site that easily demonstrates the relative slowness with CR. Please visit this link to see my problem:

                                http://www.mortgagedataweb.com/devmdw/marketshare/ParmsV2.asp?Menu=C_ST

I recommend choosing Calif and then Los Angeles county as a decent test. Use Jan 2002 thru Dec 2002.

Clicking on the HTML report button should yield a very fast report while the PDF report button is like a glacier. The stored procedure in the backend database is identical.

So - my question is - what is your experience with applying hot fixes from Business Objects? I found a hot fix that appears like it might work:

http://support.businessobjects.com/library/kbase/articles/c2017683.asp

... but I am leery of making the situation worse (I had one nightmare experience with a hot fix that applied without complaint only to require a lot of support calls and manual cleanup of the registry and re-apply of the hot fix).

Is there anything from a programming perspective that might speed up things. My whole site is .ASP (unmanaged code) until the "Create report (PDF)" button is clicked. Then I enter my .NET DLL for purpose of rendering a PDF report. For reference, I will paste a snippet of the Page Load routine:

Public Class MarketShare_Display
    Inherits System.Web.UI.Page
    Private oRpt As ReportDocument
    Dim oSubReportHeading As ReportDocument
    Dim oSubReportFooter As ReportDocument
    Dim dsSubReport As New DataSet            
    Private oUtil As New CommonFormatter

    Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        Dim objDataSet As DataSet = QueryDataBase()
        oRpt = oUtil.SetMainReport()        
        oSubReportHeading = oRpt.OpenSubreport("SubReport_TitleAndRuntimeCriteria.rpt")
        oUtil.SetCommonCRFormulas(oSubReportHeading, Me.Request)    
        ' Now set page-specific CR formulas
        With oRpt.DataDefinition.FormulaFields
            '    '           .Item("Rowcount").Text = "'" & CStr(iRowCount) & "'"
            .Item("FastPathPage").Text = "formula = """ & _
                                SetFastPathPage() & """"    
            .Item("FastPathMenu").Text = "formula = """ & "Menu=" & _
                                Request.Form("implied_Menu") & """"    
            .Item("CompanyToHighlight").Text = "formula = """ & _
                                Replace(Request.Form("CompanyToHighlight"), "'", "`") & """"
            .Item("VirtualRootName").Text = "formula = """ & _
                    Request.Form("VirtualRootName") & """"    
            .Item("TypeMortgageSize").Text = "formula = """ & oUtil.TypeMortgageSize(Me.Request) & """"
            .Item("ReportFooterRequested").Text = "formula = """ & ReportFooterRequested() & """"
            .Item("CONVPurchaseMoney").Text = "formula = """ & ShowCONVPurchaseMoneyColumns() & """"
        End With
        oRpt.SetDataSource(objDataSet)
        oUtil.PrintToPdfWithStream(oRpt, Me.Response)
    End Sub

Answer : Expert opinion and experience on slow performance and CR hotfix(es)

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