Here's the situation: I receive reports written by a vendor which are all developed on their own Oracle DB. Normally, there is no issue in setting a new datasource to our own Oracle DB, but this one report in particular is not playing nicely.
The report in question has 8 SQL Expressions, and a subreport with an additional 3 SQL Expressions (I mention this because I suspect this may have something to do with it, but not sure. Almost like CR is attempting to verify the SQL Expressions on the old DB). I'm able to update the data source of the subreport just fine, but when I try it with the main report, Crystal prompts me repeatedly for the login to the OLD DB where the report was developed (which I obviously do not have access to). The prompt is inescapable and I have to terminate Crystal's process each time.
I've tried unchecking all report and database checking/verification options in CR to no avail. If anyone has any advice as to what I could try next, it would be greatly appreciated!
EDIT: Well, it looks like all I had to do is close the login window a BILLION times (OK, more like ~16, twice for each SQL Expression?). Leaving the question open, though, to see if there is any way to avoid having to go through this for future reports.
EDIT EDIT: Some more details. This is still happening with CR 2008 SP3 attempting to connect to an Oracle 11g database with 11g R2 client. I'm not sure about how these reports were developed, but it was with CR XI at the earliest.
I have seen this w/ migrated reports before, but it's been loong ago.
If you had to do it a million times, I would have guessed that you actually had 999,999 sub-reports -- all to the same old data source, all needing verification or failure to try the new data source. Sorry, I just re-read... I meant to put 'a BILLION' minus 1.
Did you check your TNSNames against (whatever config supplied by the vendor)?
Are you using the same driver used by the vendor Oracle reports? (Oracle driver vs MS ODBC for Oracle vs CR ODBC for Oracle vs MyPrettyPony ODBC Dri...)
Did you go through the Set DataSource exercise in CR?
Can you save the subreports seperately and run them individually w/out needing the (insert some large number) login window closures?
Can you create a new report, set to your own Oracle data source? (I have to assume this one is ok, based on your comments)
If you copy the Show SQL Query and use that as a Command query in a new report, does that run? (Rinse and repeat as sub-reports).
(I'm stalling for time as I search my memory for the last time I experienced the same...)
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I work in a company that was working on an Oracle 8i Database along with Oracle Developer 2000 (Forms 4.5 & Reports 2.5). Recently, We are trying to update the Database to 10g. Everything seems to be working smoothly, but in the report the order of the rows are not ordered correctly. Also, the columns keeps switching places each time a report is requested. They work perfectly fine on the old database. Forgot to mention that we upgraded using the dump tool. We dumped the entire database from the old to the new database.
Anyone have an idea how to solve this problem.
Note: We don't have the source of either the forms or the reports. We only have the compiled modules.
Any help would really be appreciated
When running (or verifying the database) for a report in Crystal Reports 10, I am getting the message:
"The database table "SomeTable" cannot be found. Proceed to remove this table from the report?"
for multiple tables.
The report used to work fine. The report is getting data from multiple sources, and the missing tables are those that are coming from an ODBC connection to a SQL Server DB. I think the issue may be that when the report was created, the ODBC was pointing at a different instance of the database (same structures, just different location.)
I've checked and the report user has all the required permissions on the new database.
In Crystal, if you ignore the messages the report seems to run fine. However when deploying the report to be run from within the Crystal Report Viewer in a website, it is throwing a File I/O error.
This very handy blog post provides the solution: https://wisdomofsolomon.wordpress.com/2011/06/18/crystal-reports-tables-not-found-during-verify-database/
By running Show SQL Query you can see that the generated query is running SQL like
select * from databasename.dbo.SomeTable
It's the databasename part of that that seems to be causing the problem (although as far as I could tell, in my case the DB name isn't any different between the old DB connection and the new one in my case.) Amending the table queries to remove the databasename from the SQL solved the problem for me.
You can do this as follows:
go to Database / Set Datasource Location in the menus.
drill down in the report tree to the tables that are causing a problem
Under Properties, click Overriden Qualified Table Name:
In the text box, type the name of the table without the database name (e.g. dbo.SomeTable)
Do this for all the tables causing a problem
(As a comment on that blog post points out, you could also create a new connection and replace the tables with the equivalents from that new datasource, but that leaves you with the fully qualified table name from the new connection - so you might get the same problem again in future.)
in Crystal, under file and options and database tab, the data explorer must have tables checked. This is not an easy feature to know about
I have a weird problem with regards on Crystal Report bundled at visual studio 2010.
I'm trying to create a report which is the daily time record (TeacherID,date, time in, time out)
But after i include the table in the crystal report database expert, All TIME column not showing up. I tried several test if the cystal report is connected in the database for example i try to convert the TIME into DateTime then "Verify database" and oppps the Time columns (which is converted into DateTime) was shown up.
Structure of TeacherDTR in Crystal Reports
Structure in MSSQL Server
i tried to change TimeInAM from Time to DateTime
and oppppssss
i'm going crazy for this and spends lots of time
Thank you in advance!
Your issue is you are unable to see some of the columns in a table in database in crystal reports though they exist in database.
Follow the link this might be helpful to you. As this link discuss the similar problem.
finally i found the answer that works fine to me ..
when setting up the connection to the database i used sql server native client but it was wrong
the right one is Microsoft ole db sql provider for sql server
I have a report that runs one query in 9 different Oracle databases. If one of these databases is down, the whole report bombs. Is there any way to set it so it ignores this failure and proceeds with the rest of the report?
I'm not sure if there is a way to do what you're wanting within RS, but here's my idea:
If you can call from a SQL database -
Set up linked servers on a sql server.
Wrap the call in a stored procedure and return an alternate data set if the call fails to the linked server.
You could probably do something similar if there is an oracle server you can use.
Failed to load rowset. Incorrect syntax near...this error comes when I run the program. I want to show report in a crystal report. I have many tables linked by key. Anyone can suggest
I don't know what kind of database you're pulling from, but you may want to do your joins before you pull it into CR.
If that doesn't do it, you may want to save your data to a temporary table as well, then link CR to the temporary table.
In most cases this means that Crystal Reports has build an incorrect SQL statement. This happens sometimes as f.e. with SQLBase. Mostly that is difficult to solve.
Sometimes it can be solved by using a different database driver, f.e. try to use OLEDB instead of ODBC.
If that doesn't help, please provide more details:
Database (SQL Server, Oracle, or ...)
Database driver: ODBC, OLEDB, or ...
Query (via menu [Database, Show SQL Query).