What is Crystal Report?

[HowHow]

My boss asked me to find out "Crystal Report" and then use it to create report as our own database system doesn't produce all the reports that we needed. I have no idea what is it about. Can anybody be kind enough to show me some good link to look into? Currently I am using Access 2000 to link the tables thru ODBC to our system. Is Crystal Report easier to learn and more user friendly? Many thanks.

[Serenityquinn15]

>>Crystal Reports is a business intelligence application used to design and generate reports from a wide range of data sources.
DataSources like: Microsoft Access(any version), SQL, and etc.
>>In Creating report in crystal you'll learn about the report design, place object on a report, and how to sort, group and total your reoport data.
>>If you are using access 2000, you can connect your database to crystal, it's just like the access report. you can drag any field you want to show..

[HowHow]

Thanks for your info. Do I need to install anything in order to use Crystal? Like I need MS office professional so that I can use Access in it. How about Crystal? Does it comes with Microsoft or do I need to install and pay licence seperately?

Secondly, our database system is created in SQL. When I have Crystal in my computer, I can just link the table like how I did with Access? With Access, I can link the table using ODBC. How about Crystal? How to link the tables from current system with Crystal?

[acoder]

When in doubt, consult Wikipedia (there's a tutorial link too).

[HowHow]

Thanks for the link. Appreciate it.