[Gllug] Access Database to MySQL / PostreSQL

Tethys tet at accucard.com
Fri Jun 13 11:04:26 UTC 2003


Bernard Peek writes:

>It's worth noting that there's a successful commercial product (Crystal 
>Reports) that is virtually a clone of the report-generator in Access. I 
>haven't found any open-source equivalent.

And boy does it suck! We've used it for some report generation from
an Oracle database, and it's pretty grim. You also can't automate it.
We wanted to produce daily reports, but Crystal is heavily geared
towards interactive use. Yes, you *can* schedulke reports, but it's
like pulling teeth...

Tet

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