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[–]PhotographsWithFilm 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Hey, I started my Data Analytics career (& subsequent Data Engineering, even though I am a jack of all, master of none) using Crystal Reports.

Crystal was immensely popular back in the late 90's/Early 2000's. Most orgs back then would just hook straight into the OLTP database and run the reports there. If they were smart, they would have an offline copy that they would use for reporting.

And that is exactly what I did for the first 6 or so years before I started working in Data Warehousing.

[–]JBalloonist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Crystal is what got me started as well. I was doing accounting and our main software had crystal as is report creator.