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Crystal Reports is a business intelligence application used to design and generate reportsfrom a wide range of data sources. Several other applications, such as Microsoft VisualStudio, bundle an OEM version of Crystal Reports as a general purpose reporting tool.[1]Crystal Reports became the de facto standard report writer when Microsoft released itwith Visual Studio.[2]

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* 1 History* 2 Features

o 2.1 Report designer o 2.2 Supported data sourceso 2.3 Development

* 3 See also* 4 References* 5 Bibliography

* 6 External links[edit] History

The product was originally created by Crystal Services Inc. as Quik Reports[3] when theycouldn't find a suitable commercial report writer for their accounting software. After

producing versions 1.0 through 3.0, the company was acquired in 1994 by SeagateTechnology.[4] Crystal Services was combined with Holostic Systems to form theInformation Management Group of Seagate Software, which later rebranded as CrystalDecisions,[5] and produced versions 4.0 through 9.0. Crystal Decisions was acquired inDecember 2003 by Business Objects, which has so far produced versions 10, 11 (XI) and

the current version 12 (2008). Business Objects was acquired by SAP on October 8,2007.[edit] Features[edit] Report designer

Crystal Reports allows users to graphically design data connections and report layout. Inthe Database Expert, users can select and link tables from a wide variety of data sources,including Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, Oracle databases, Business Objects Enterprise

business views, and local file system information. Fields from these tables can be placedon the report design surface, and can also be used in custom formulas, using either BASIC or Crystal's own syntax, which are then placed on the design surface. Formulascan be evaluated at several phases during report generation as specified by the developer.

Both fields and formulae have a wide array of formatting options available, which can beapplied absolutely or conditionally. The data can be grouped into bands, each of whichcan be split further and conditionally suppressed as needed. Crystal Reports also supportssubreports, graphing, and a limited amount of GIS functionality.[edit] Supported data sources

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Accessible data sources include the following:

* Databases such as Sybase, IBM DB2, Ingres, Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQLServer, MySQL, Interbase and Oracle

* Btrieve

* Spreadsheets such as Microsoft Excel* Text files* HTML XML files* Groupware applications as Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange and Novell GroupWise* SAP: BW, Info Sets, Tables, and Business Objects Universes* Any other data source accessible through a web service, ODBC, JDBC or OLAP.

[edit] Development

Crystal Reports comes integrated with Visual Studio. Crystal Reports allows Javadevelopers to build applications with Crystal Reports components.

[edit] See also* Business Software Solutions Applications and Services* Business Objects* Seagate Software* Crystal Analysis* Crystal Decisions* Crystal Enterprise

[edit] References

1. ^ Peck, George (2008). Crystal Reports 2008: The Complete Reference. McGraw-Hill Professional. p. 566. ISBN 9780071590983. http://books.google.com/books?id=WJimSiFQII0C. Retrieved 2009-07-09. "Not only was Crystal Reports bundled withearlier versions of Visual Basic..., but every Professional or higher version of VS.NET,up to and including Visual Studio 2008, includes an option to install Crystal Reports aswell...."

2. ^ Julia Lerman. "What Visual Studio Developers Should Know About CrystalReports 2008".http://aspalliance.com/1564_What_Visual_Studio_Developers_Should_Know_About_Cr ystal_Reports_2008.

3. ^ "Crystal Reports links dBASE and Paradox data". Data Based Advisor. September 01, 1992. http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-9259653_ITM.Retrieved 2009-07-09.

4. ^ "Seagate to acquire Crystal Services". San Jose Mercury News. 1994-05-11.http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_text_direct-0=0EB71CFF568507EE&p_field_direct-0=document_id. Retrieved 2009-04-14.

5. ^ "Crystal Decisions Repay Investors' Faith". CBR. 2001-09-01.http://www.cbronline.com/article_cbr.asp?guid=E7019550-F89C-4BC2-B40D-2BEECAC04A94. Retrieved 2009-04-14.

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[edit] Bibliography

* G. Taylor, Allen (June 3, 2008). Crystal Reports 2008 For Dummies (1st ed.). For Dummies. pp. 396. ISBN 0470290773. http://www.dummies.com/store/product/Crystal-

Reports-2008-For-Dummies.productCd-0470290773.html.* Peck, George (June 19, 2008). Crystal Reports 2008: The Complete Reference (1sted.). McGraw-Hill Osborne Media. pp. 968. ISBN 0071590986.http://www.crystalbook.com/crtcr/program/book/intro_2008.asp.

[edit] External links

* Crystal Reports official site* Crystal Reports official community site* C# Crystal Reports Tutorial* 3rd-party software tools for Crystal Reports

* Reviews:o Internet News Review of Crystal Reports 2008, Oct. 16, 2007o CRN.com review of Crystal Reports XI, June 10, 2005

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I am having some troubles using Crystal SQL Designer in Crystal Reports 7(unfortunately I can not upgrade this version because of other

software needs).

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In details, I can not create a SQL query to process the data stored in my Access database(that has been created by Access '97: I can not

upgrade or convert it, too because this file is automatically reprocessed and rewritten by

the other software I am using, every time Igenerate a report).

When I open Crystal SQL query designer, if I use as origin my Access file (I even tried tocreate different ODBC data origins by using

different drivers) I get this error:"xBase error: Could not open the file"

I have also tried to create a query using the sample database archived in Crystal Reports

and the error I get is:"ODBC error: [Microsoft][Driver ODBC Microsoft Access]..."

Does anyone know how to deal with that?

Oh, by the way, I am running XP Professional SP3.

Thanks so much!

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arya bowo

I am using Seagate Info v7.0

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hilfy (Programmer)13 Feb 09 13:07You schedule them all to run at the same time. Also, in the Configuration tool (I'm notrunning SI at this time, so I'm going from memory here...) on one of the tabs there is anoption for setting the number of concurent jobs.

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A computer only does what you actually told it to do - not what you thought you told it todo.linpens (TechnicalUser)24 Feb 09 9:31Info Administrator Info Servers tabChoose server Maximum Load button

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