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Once again I've spent a whole morning going in the wrong direction with a convincing SQL script. This article is just a note on when using Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) or Report Builder 2.0 and when previewing the report, the parameters are not accounted for (ie. the SQL query creating the dataset do...
Thought I'd put a note on this error. Bearing in mind that this is a general data type error and not just because I tried to convert a date in SQL format to a Month name. An error occurred during local report processing. An error has occurred during report processing. The Group expression used in grouping 'table1_month...
Basically I thought that the regional settings of a report generated using Report Builder 2.0 on a MS SQL Server 2008 instance were dependent on either the server or the client machine. Realised that this was actually specified in the report. Here's a quick note on how to set Dates and Times used in parameter fields to...
Dunno about you guys but I've searched the WWW for a solution and couldn't find it. The work around I've documented is a "solution" to my situation and environment. Our setup is: SQL Server 2008 Report Builder 2.0 BMC Service Desk Express 9.8 DataSet1: Incident # Group Name Close Date & Time Assigned to Full Name Incid...
Yes, well don't laugh, I could not find this on the WWW so I was obviously not using Google properly. Anyway here's just a quick note on how to do if else statements in Report Builder 2.0 I'm looking at the following if statement: If (MyFieldName = 0) Then Return 1 Else Return MyFieldName Can be expressed as: IIf(Field...
The Issue After modifying a report and on running it, Report Builder 2.0 returns the following error: An error occurred during local report processing. An error has occurred during report processing. Query execution failed for dataset 'DataSet1'. The variable name '@GroupName' has already been declared. Variable names...
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