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Can Crystal Reports be used with MySQL?
If not, what reporting tool do you recommend?

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As observed, Crystal Reports can connect to MySQL, but practical success depends on choosing the right connector and matching bitness at design and deployment time. Typical, reliable options are ODBC (MySQL Connector/ODBC), ADO.NET via MySQL Connector/NET, or an OLE DB provider. A common workflow is: install the MySQL ODBC driver, create a System DSN (host, port, database, charset), then pick that DSN inside Crystal Reports' Database Expert. The MySQL Connector/ODBC documentation is the up-to-date reference for downloads and driver options (Connector/ODBC Developer Guide).

Two frequent pitfalls and ways to avoid them: Crystal Reports is historically a 32-bit application, so the DSN must be created with the matching 32-bit ODBC administrator on 64-bit Windows (use the ODBC Data Source Administrator in SysWOW64). See Microsofts documentation on ODBC administration for details (). Second, newer MySQL servers use the caching_sha2_password authentication plugin; older drivers may fail unless updated or the account is configured with a supported plugin—refer to MySQL docs if authentication errors appear (caching_sha2_password).

Performance and deployment notes: use Crystal Reports command objects or stored procedures to filter and aggregate on the server, avoid returning huge rowsets, and verify that the runtime environment has the same driver bitness as the designer. For web-based reporting alternatives (as suggested), lightweight PHP report grids can be useful when a browser UI is preferred, but they trade off some of Crystal Reports advanced formatting and export features.

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>ChrisCan Crystal Reports be used with MySQL? If not, what reporting tool do you recommend?

Crystal Report uses different data sources including MySQL.

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