Crystal Reports: An Easy Way to See the SQL Behind Your Report

If you have been using a SQL database but never really understood what SQL was or what it looked like, then here is an easy place to start.

If you have a report that uses an ODBC/SQL data source, look at "Show SQL query" in the database menu. This will display the SQL that Crystal Reports sends to the database server to retrieve records.

Look at the SQL each report creates and see the SQL the report writer generates. This is an easy way to learn this database language.

You can make some changes here, but we don’t recommend it because changes to selection criteria in SQL override the Select Expert and Selection Formula, and we believe those are more flexible and powerful tools.

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