What is the better reporting tool Crystal Reports or Oracle Reports?
Crystal Reports is NOT far superior to Oracle Reports. Oracle Reports is a deeper and much more flexible product than Crystal. However, because of its flexibility, Oracle Reports is harder to master than Crystal. With Crystal, you will be forced to write a significant number of your reports using temporary tables. With Oracle Reports, the product is deep enough that you almost never need to resort to temporary tables (however, many people that use Oracle Reports are not skilled with the product and do all sorts of stupid things with it). With Crystal, you probably will never do anything really stupid because it doesn’t do as much. With a good Developer, I would prefer Reports, but with a less skilled developer, Crystal may be a safer choice. I think Crystal may be better as an end user reporting tool as well. If you are looking for a solid, bomb proof architecture for reporting, I would suggest Oracle Reports. However, there are still some annoying product bugs such as the latest versi
