Sure, I will respond. Look at the quality at comments. what was that, "gee, you are so smart let's see you do better".

Maybe you should try reading the comments people leave. The point is that you - all are not looking deep enough into solutions. Your solution to this question was, don't do that. Correct, or not. The person asked, how do I, and you responded with , don't. Like at work I try to point what you can do with products. This week someone was complaining Reporting Services can't handle Null data. Come to find out the problem was something they were doing in a stored procedure. Once they let someone look at what they were doing.

First of all, I will tell as a fact, that using multiple data sets is not an drag on the product. I have one report that uses five different datasets, ties to five different tables and one of the data sets ties two different data bases. The report runs from 35 seconds to two. Not so bad. Multiple data sets is one of the great pluses of the product. Else I could just Crystal. (ouu). This report I worked on was intended for one individual at a time. Now of course the people wish to run the report against a group at a time. The tables do not all return the same amount of rows. So, I was looking for ideas to this. I do not have a solution yet, that is why I was looking at the forum.

Before you get your feelings hurt, be a programmer man. Look for solutions. That is what I was doing. That is what I have done since the early 90's. COBOL, VB, dot, Hack away. Even when using SharePoint I have do some researching and hacking sometimes.

Once again, the point being made, is if you say you can not do something, then give a technical reason. Maybe you are quite correct. Other wise, hack and search.

Sorry to hurt your feeling, I was trying to make a point, forums can be useful, but put some effort into it.

And yes, when I do find a solution, I will be glad to share it with you. So, excuse me while I go hack away.

In the future I will not be abrupt. But sit and spend time searching, sing up for a site (for free) just to see an answer with a lack of substance. That was my point.