CR with VS 2003 Oracle vs SQL Server 2005

VS2003
Windows XP
All Crystal Reports designed using "push" model (Seting the Report Document's SetDataSource property using a single table dataset)
I have a large VS2003 application (90+ Crystal Reports) using an Oracle database. The client wants to switch to SQL Server 2005. The application works with SQL Server "as is" except for the Crystal Reports. A query engine error is generated. The tables/views are quite simple using only integers, decimals, char and varchar columns, no datetime columns. The dataset's Name and datatable's Name are the same, the only difference is the data provider used. Microsoft's Oracle Data provider vs Microsoft's SQL Server Data provider. Any thoughts? Any workarounds?.
I am in the process of converting the application to VS2008 and the problem does not exist in the VS2008 version. Crystal Reports converted from VS2003 to VS2008 work with either database/data provider.,
Edit: It appears that Oracle does not differentiate between datatypes decimal and int32. Any thoughts. (Not the problem)
Edited by: spooky102 on Aug 17, 2009 6:40 PM
Edited by: spooky102 on Aug 17, 2009 6:42 PM
Edited by: spooky102 on Aug 17, 2009 7:31 PM

An assumption here is that your .NET 2003 app is using the bundled version of CR(?) - version 9.1. If that is the case, make sure you have updated your install with SP1:
https://smpdl.sap-ag.de/~sapidp/012002523100009301312009E/crnet11win_en.zip
Next, see if this blog will help you in troubleshooting the issue:
/people/ludek.uher/blog/2009/03/02/troubleshooting-issues-with-vs-net-datasets-and-crystal-reports
re:
It appears that Oracle does not differentiate between data types decimal and int32.
Not sure how this relates to Crystal Reports as such? But let's work on one issue per thread. If you want to work the data type issue more, please create a new thread. Otherwise, these things get too messy...
Ludek

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