Amazon.com Review
Crystal Reports 7: The Complete Reference is the best Crystal Reports book around for users who have progressed beyond the "baffled novice" level. Even for newcomers to Crystal Reports who are willing to experiment a bit, this book will prove satisfactory. It's worth the cover price. Particularly praiseworthy are the sections on programming with formulas, in which the author explains details of the Crystal Reports formula language (such as variable scope, time functions, and sorting) that other books don't cover adequately.
This book also goes into detail on doing analysis with cross-tabs, performing geographic analyses, getting user input with parameter fields, and importing data from online analytical processing (OLAP) cubes. Though it lacks much of a tutorial on Structured Query Language (SQL), coverage extends beyond Crystal Reports Designer to include Seaga