Crystal Reports can access many of the most common PC database formats directly. In other words, the program has the built
Accessing the database directly is the fastest way to read the data. Crystal Reports only needs to talk to a single data access layer that provides contact with the data. Report results can be obtained quickly in almost any system environment.
In addition, data access is simple. Direct access database files are point
When you access a database directly through Crystal Reports, only that database type can be used by the report. You can not switch to a different type of database or table without creating a new report.
For example, if you design a report based on Btrieve data, you can not change the tables accessed by the report to Access data. Crystal Reports communicates with Btrieve data using Btrieve
If you access data through ODBC, on the other hand, the syntax used is always the SQL language, regardless of the actual database type. See ODBC data sources.
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