Regarding teaching caution: Some people might say we go overboard. The attendees must have their manager sign and return a document that says they understand that they are responsible for...

I would start with comparing the differences between the reports that are working and those that are not. What errors do you get when you try to run the reports...

That's what I was thinking... Given that not everyone has a DW handy, it would make sense to me to be able to simplify the connection to the database... so...

I think you can, it's just that the interface is extremely unfriendly. (Another reason it works much better against a DW).

After posting this, I got off my lazy butt and...

Add another calculated field to your dataset. Instead of:

=IIF(fields!date1.value>fields!date2.value,"yes","no")

use

=IIF(fields!date1.value>fields!date2.value,1,0)

then you can total that.

Since you're new here, you should definitely read this article... it explains how to post questions to get the best help.

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Best+Practices/61537/

Once we have some sample data, answering your questions should...

If you create a placeholder, you can format it any way you want.

These are puzzling:

where [term]=@term and ([position]=@position) >=0

and [value_per_month]=@value_per_month >=0

Could you please explain what you're trying to accomplish? I just don't follow.

[position] is a column in your table, and @position would...

Check out Paul Randal's article...

Finding out who dropped a table using the transaction log[/url]

Looks like this returns who ran the offending code:

SUSER_SNAME ([Transaction SID]) AS [User]

Probably several ways to do this.

One would be to have two tablixes, one on top of the other and set one visible and the other not depending on which parameter...

Like this?

http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/paul/finding-out-who-dropped-a-table-using-the-transaction-log/

or

http://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/3090/how-to-find-user-who-ran-drop-or-delete-statements-on-your-sql-server-objects/

One way...

SELECT *

FROM

(SELECT DDid

, Seq

, Descrip

, ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY DDid, Seq ORDER BY DDid, Seq) AS rn

FROM

(SELECT 1 As DDid, 0 AS Seq, 'AAA' AS Descrip

UNION ALL

SELECT 1, 1,...

Sounds like you need a table for this:

The order is B,BB, A, AA, AAA, & AAAA.... something like

CREATE TABLE LoookupTable(

stringValue CHAR(4) PRIMARY KEY,

Seq TINYINT...

Maybe you can use this article[/url] to simulate LAG and LEAD.

Not really. It's only in TempDB because for him, it's not a permanent part of any database. you would put it in your database and not in TempDB.

The reason...