Oracle 10G and Crystal XI

[Thadeus]

Hello all,
It's been a long time since I have had the pleasure of dealing with a Crystal product... my company is allowing me to look into it as an alternative to their current reporting tools.

Here's the environment and background:
Back-end is Oracle 10G (being upgraded to 10G Release 2 this weekend)
Crystal is Developer trialware version XI.
I do not have a full Oracle client installed on my machine, so I cannot use Native Oracle access.
Crystal support told me to download the client from Oracle and everything will be peachy-keen.

My Question:
Does it matter which of the 10G clients I install? Or is it very specific about 10G Express vs. 10GR1 vs. 10GR2 ????

Thank you,
Thadeus

 

[synapsevampire]

As long as it's 10G you should be fine.

Curious why you posted here, did you not try it, opting to post here PRIOR to doing what CR support suggested?

-k

 

[Thadeus]

There was nothing to try... I have gone to Oracle's webpage and I am confronted with three (3) different clients for 10G.

Add to that the fact that I will get no internal support for this since my company's DBAs are upset that I won't just use Oracle's Discoverer.

So 'trying it' would mean downloading each one, installing it and seeing if it works. Then if it doesn't, removing it and trying the next one. I assume, that much like other Oracle products I have installed, a client won't just uninstall cleanly. A left-over DLL from one failed client test and I could make the others fail as well.

I've offered enough advice back in the day in this forum to earn asking a question today. If I start using the product again, I'll be happy to continuee offering design advice when I can help.

Finally - There is a difference in how bloated I'd like to make the client piece... The downloads are substantially different. If I can get away with the 10G Express Client, it seems a simpler way to go.

30,943,220 bytes 10G Express Client
475,090,051 bytes 10G Release 2 Client

BTW, Thank you for the answer. I hope you realize I'm just answering your curiosity and there's nothing snarky implied.

~Thadeus

 

[synapsevampire]

Oracle Express is a toy version of Oracle, supporting up to 4 gig databases I think, so I would suggest one of the others. Not sure if the client limits you...

I's true that Oracle makes lousy software, other than their database, but the clients have gotten better.

-k