Robert, I have not worked for a while with Crystal Reports and I do not know if CR allows to go across different database type, and are you willing to spend the money on it, but for plain querying Crystal Reports works well using ODBC connections. CR works where MS-Access fails, because MS-Access does not really wants to work with a lot of data that might be stored on either Oracle or MySQL
http://www.businessobjects.com/products/reporting/crystalreports/ Mikhail Berman -----Original Message----- From: Robert Citek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 3:28 PM To: MySQL Subject: Access, ODBC, Oracle, MySQL Is there a way to query data where one table is in an Oracle database and another is in a MySQL database? We have two projects. One project is entirely in Oracle 9i on an MS Windows 2000 server and the other is in MySQL 4.1 on Linux. It isn't worth our time at this point to migrate entirely to one or the other. So I was wondering if there is a way to query data from two tables, where one table was in one database and the other table in another? Currently, I have hacked together a perl script which does what I need. But this is not a long-term solution. So we are looking for other strategies. One strategy would be to be to use ODBC drivers and MS Access to link the two tables within an MS Access database. Another strategy would be to link the Oracle tables into MySQL, but I don't know if that can be done. Any other strategies? Pointers to documents or search terms gladly accepted as my current searches returned a lot of hits but nothing useful, unless I missed it. Regards, - Robert http://www.cwelug.org/downloads Help others get OpenSource software. Distribute FLOSS for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
