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Change data source in Crystal Report

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Topic: Change data source in Crystal Report
Posted By: thummel1
Subject: Change data source in Crystal Report
Date Posted: 19 Feb 2015 at 5:36am
Hi, I'm working on CR 2008. I have a report that pulls data from an ODBC connection as well as an Access table from MS Access. The table from MS Access is quite large, about 1600+ rows of data.
 
My goal: I no longer want my report to reference this MS Access table because it prevents me from loading this report into Lawson Business Intelligence (LBI) because MS Access is not an aproved Data Source, unlike our ODBC connection. Is there a way to take this Access table, and incorporate the data into my existing report (in some simple way) so that I can stop this connection to MS Access? I've been exploring the CR Respository feature but it looks like we need an ODBC connection to that as well and some behind the scenes server set up for that option to work.
 
Any suggestions would be appreciated, thanks!


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Posted By: kevlray
Date Posted: 20 Feb 2015 at 5:35am
Short of exporting the data into an accepted source (I do not know what you have available).  FYI- There are free versions of MS-SQL Express available.  There is a size limitation of the data (the last I remember is 4GB).  I hope this helps.


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