RE: ODBC Parameter Passing for Reporting Services

Have you looked at SEQUEL from HelpSystems? Piece of cake, without the
overhead of ODBC

Paul Nelson
Office 512-392-2577
Cell 708-670-6978
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Salter, James
Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 7:52 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: ODBC Parameter Passing for Reporting Services

Mike, yes I am.

Thanks.
James Salter
Systems Programmer
American Cast Iron Pipe Company
phone (205) 325-3033
fax (205) 307-3833


from: Mike <koldark@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: ODBC Parameter Passing for Reporting Services

Are you talking about running from Microsoft's SQL server reporting
services?

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Mike Wills
http://mikewills.info

Sent from my iPod Touch

On Apr 2, 2009, at 6:07 PM, "Salter, James" <JSalter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I am running into some problems trying to create parameters for
Reporting Services.

My SQL statement looks something like this - select ... from ....
where
item = ?

This does create a Parameter called Parameter1, however how do you
code
it to get all possible values for all items?

I can use the "LIKE %" syntax, however this does not really give me
the
chance to enter and retrieve an exact value.

Does anyone else have any knowledge on this? The help text really
doesn't provide any information?

It does not appear to support the Multi-Value option for parameters.

Is there a function snippet that you use in your reports?

Not surprisingly, Microsoft really doesn't support ODBC as well as
they
should.

Also, if you have any tricks for converting the DateTime parameter to
MMDDYY or CCYYMMDD formats, feel free to include these as well.

Thanks.
James Salter
Systems Programmer
American Cast Iron Pipe Company
phone (205) 325-3033
fax (205) 307-3833

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