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Crystal Reports Basics: Five steps for the beginner--Getting started

This is based on the book, Crystal Reports: A Beginner’s Guide.
1. Define the concept. Determine what information you want in the final report, and how you want it laid out. Sketching on paper or doing a mockup in another program (e.g., Excel) is helpful. If you look at the sample reports included in Crystal Reports, you’ll have a good basis for design.

What is a VIEW? I just don't understand this database stuff...

View (database)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In database theory, a view consists of a stored query accessible as a virtual table composed of the result set of a query. Unlike ordinary tables (base tables) in a relational database, a view does not form part of the physical schema: it is a dynamic, virtual table computed or collated from data in the database. Changing the data in a table alters the data shown in subsequent invocations of the view.
Views can provide advantages over tables:
* Views can represent a subset of the data contained in a table

Data Mining: What is Data Mining?

Overview

Generally, data mining (sometimes called data or knowledge discovery) is the process of analyzing data from different perspectives and summarizing it into useful information - information that can be used to increase revenue, cuts costs, or both. Data mining software is one of a number of analytical tools for analyzing data. It allows users to analyze data from many different dimensions or angles, categorize it, and summarize the relationships identified. Technically, data mining is the process of finding correlations or patterns among dozens of fields in large relational databases.