Year over year reports

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Year over year reports

greenandgold52

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October 30, 2015 at 4:44 pm

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I have a year over year running total sales report that works perfect except for if a branch has not been open for two years. For branches that opened in 2014 the issue is the first month is the month that they opened not Jan. Is there some way to force the first month to always be jan even if there is no data?

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1003863 More actions · Answer 1

greenandgold52 (10/30/2015)
I have a year over year running total sales report that works perfect except for if a branch has not been open for two years. For branches that opened in 2014 the issue is the first month is the month that they opened not Jan. Is there some way to force the first month to always be jan even if there is no data?

Yes. Create a mini-calendar table as a Temp Table with all the months in it and do an outer join to it.

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greenandgold52 Grasshopper Points: 19 More actions · Answer 2

Thank you for the response. Unfortunately I am just the helpdesk who knows some programming at a small company. Granted I am in school and looking to become a DBA but right now I have little control over the database. Do you have any other suggestions or how would I go about implementing that from BIDS?

MMartin1 One Orange Chip Points: 27768 More actions · Answer 3

Inside of the SSRS development environment you can create a data set that has this information, that is, the calendar months that Jeff Mentioned. You want that table/dataset to have at least

month(like 2015-01-01), monthName (like 'January').

You join on month(yourdate) for a specific month or dateName(m, yourdate) for all Januarys in all years for example.

Hope this helps.

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