How can I stop header section repeating on other pages?

1. Which header section is printing, Page or Group?  You can look in the margin in Preview

2. If the field is of date datatype when it comes over, then once you place it on the report, you can right click it, choose Format Field, go to the Date tab, click the customize button and set the properties accordingly.
You can also use a formula to convert it to a string in the format you want:

uppercase(totext({table.date},"MMM yy"))

I am talking about report header section 2

sorry it is
page header section 2

 1. How can I set the header part that it will be only printed if there is details under it. Currenly for every page the header section is viewed.
> You would want to do a conditional suppression on this section.  
     2. How can convert the date pulled from sql server db and put it in a format like JAN 05, is there a specific function? I am using stored procedures to prepare the unerlying data for crystal.
>1. Formula - totext({date],'MMM yy')
>2. Added the column to the report.
      Right click on column, go to format field
      Go to the Date tab
      Select that appropriate format.  There should be one that looks like 'Mar-99'

Hope this helps.

The page header will print at the top of each page.  When it is printed there is no wayto determine if there are records for that page unless you are getting an extra page.

mlmcc

Agree.  Correct me if I am wrong but it almost sounds like there might be some groupings that may contain no detail line, thus you do not want to show those heading.  For example the number of items per client, page break on new client.  If a client didnt order anything, then it might still create a blank page.