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I wondered if you could help us with a Crystal Reporting issue. &nbsp;We have some tables within an SQL table which store Documents (such as Word, PDF, Excel) as BLOB data. &nbsp;We have been able to create crystal reports which utilise other data types, but have no idea where to start with binary data. &nbsp;The basic idea is we would like to show the embedded document as part of the report.
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I wondered if you could help us with a Crystal Reporting issue.  We have some tables within an SQL table which store Documents (such as Word, PDF, Excel) as BLOB data.  We have been able to create crystal reports which utilise other data types, but have no idea where to start with binary data.  The basic idea is we would like to show the embedded document as part of the report.

Crystal Reports and SQL Binary Data (Blob)

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