Path: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!pd7cy2so!pd7cy1no!shaw.ca!border1.nntp.ash.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-04!sn-xit-01!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Daniel Morgan Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Oracle privileges and Crystal Reports Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 18:54:33 -0800 Organization: ATS Message-ID: <1075776813.905654@yasure> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cache-Post-Path: yasure!unknown@oracle.advtechserv.com X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b5 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 36 Xref: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com comp.databases.oracle.server:253517 kris p wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I'm having trouble running some Crystal 8.5 reports that > were created in and work with Oracle 8. The reports are > printed from an application through the Oracle 8.1.77 ODBC > driver and work intermittently. In the Crystal Reports > designer they always work. > > Someone has told me that the privileges of the database > that the reports were created in could affect whether the > reports print or not in that a report could reach for data > outside the user's schema/space/whatever and get data from > a table of the same name, and would fail if the structure > does not match the report's, if the report/database user > has privileges that allow table access outside the user's > schema/space/whatever. Any truth in that? The report itself > is fine and I get the 0x80047602 error from Crystal, 'field > not found'. > > Thanks in advance for any help. > > kristoff plasun Truth in all of it. Have your DBA verify you have the permissions required. And dump ODBC and use Crystal's native Oracle connectivity. -- Daniel Morgan http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/oad/oad_crs.asp http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/aoa/aoa_crs.asp damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with a 'u' to reply)