Re: Crystal reports 9 fails to recognise data on upgrade to

On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 10:56, Kristina Magwood wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are updating from v7.3 to v8.0.1 as well as transferring the
> database to a new machine.  We use Crystal Reports 9 to access the
> data on a production basis.  Unfortunately, Crystal Reports 9 fails to
> recognise some of the data fields on the new database.  In particular,
> it does not recognise VARCHAR 256 and larger.
>
> Jeff Eckermann suggested that the ODBC settings were different on the
> new machine.
> "In particular, look at the " text as longvarchar" setting."
> But  the text as longvarchar setting is set on the new machine.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Kristina Magwood

Try setting 'MaxVarcharSize = <number bigger than 256>' in your
odbcinst.ini file.

-K