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VB6: Data Report Designer

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by maryweilage

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This week's Visual Basic newsletter explains how to build complex reports with the Data Report Designer.

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by bogdincescu

A *real* report designer is Crystal Reports, with facilities for connecting to different databases and text-files and for calling stored procedures.
And, if using Oracle databases, the best is Oracle Reports, that makes reports to be run both in client-server mode or on a Oracle Reports Server - and that's what I use the most.

The VB 6 reports don't have all the facilities of Oracle reports, neither those of Crystal Reports. Still, being in the pack, one may use it without spending extra money on licences.

I use VBA mostly for getting reports in .xls, for many users are willing to get the data in .xls, where they may perform lots of custom data processing and formatting, requests to which using any kind of reports builder would be rather unpractical.

by ehess

Use Data Dynamics' "Active Reports". It is easier to use than Crystal Reports and very powerful. Have Fun!

by dan cooperstock

If you want a development environment that is fabulous at data entry, data display, and reporting, just use PowerBuilder. It's all built in, using only one technology for all of the above (the DataWindow). It beats VB hands-down.

by ikequist

How can the data report be refreshed to reflect changes in the connected database table.

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