Re: Crystal Reports used with an ORACLE DATABASE

[Quoted] Hi Daniel,

Thanks for your info.Could you give me some more detail that how the crystal report connect to oracle database.(ODBC)? Could you send some sample?

Thanks

Faraz

Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:<1074973563.573809_at_yasure>...
> Faraz wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Could some one give me idea about the crystal reports?
> > Is that the component of Visual Basic?
> > What is the purpose of Crystal Reports?
> > What version I can use with an oracle database?
> > I like to use Crystal Reports with an ORACLE Database, could some one
> > give me an idea how we use crystal reports with Oracle Database.
> > What is the purpose of CRYSTAL REPORTS when we used with an ORACLE
> > Database, because there is also an ORACLE componen "REPORTS"
> > available.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Faraz
>
> Crystal is a totally separate product and not owned by Microsoft.
>
> To create reports.
>
> Any current version ... I'd suggest 8.5 rather than 9.0 as 9 requires
> the Crystal app server.
>
> Crystal is far easier to use than any of Oracle's own reporting tools
> with the possible exception of Discoverer. You can connect to the
> database with ODBC (not recommended), with a native Oracle connection,
> and either directly to tables, views, and/or synonyms or with IN OUT
> parameters from procedures.
Received on Mon Jan 26 2004 - 05:12:13 CET