I would like to extract the SQL queries from Crystal Report .rpt files, is there a way to do this?

Question

I would like to extract the SQL queries from Crystal Report .rpt files, is there a way to do this?

I don\'t have any of the Crystal Reports products, just the .rpt files

Answer 1

My experience is with older versions of Crystal (8,9) - I've no idea what the file formats look like for more recent versions. However, it's worth opening the files up in a text editor just in case, but for the file formats I've seen, the query text is not accessible this way.

If I remember correctly, some versions of Visual Studio 2003 came with tools for manipulating Crystal .rpt files (but I guess this isn't of much use to you, since if you had this already, you wouldn't be asking!).

It's not a very imaginative suggestion, but perhaps your quickest route would be to download the 30-day trial version of the current Crystal Reports, and see if that will open the files for you.