VB Crystal Reports - Oracle problem with outer join

Trying to use the VB Crystal Reports to make a report with data in an Oracle database (Oracle 7 under VMS). Everything works fine until we try an outer join - server reports an error, incomplete expression. Suspect it may be a syntax problem with Oracle using (+) for outer join but Crystal Reports possibly using =* - but then again I read that the ODBC driver is supposed to translate such things. Is this a known problem?

For that matter, what other report writer would be good for letting Windows end-users whip up quick reports from the Oracle data?

Replies by mail please - usual excuses about not reading these areas. :-) Will summerize if I have informative responses. Thanks.

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