Can Oracle materialized view be used as crystal report datasource

Hi,
Can we use materialized view created in Orace 10g database as the data source of crystal reports.
I'm using Crystal reports Server 2008 V1 version. I'm unable to find the materialized view under my data connection. I can see only tables, static views and stored procedures.
Is there a way by which I can run my reports against a materialized view created in Oracle.
Thanks
Thomas EL

Hi Thomas,
Rather than doing all of this work around to access multiple databases/servers why not create a stored procedure to do all of this for you? Search the notes area for samples on how/what CR requires to use a SP in Oracle.
Advantages is this is done all server side and CR simply waits for the data to be returned. Even if you are using a BVM or connecting directly to the SP, both cases are server side. Database servers are much more efficient and optimized to run queries and filtering data. CR has to do the filtering on it's second pass and that causes performance delays.
Thank you
Don

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