Easy Report parameter Question

Im trying to hard code a Year in as an available value for the user to pick out of a drop down box. This is what i have so far.

Label Value

Travel Year 2006

well i want to go ahead and put two value for that one label , like this:

Label Value

Travel Year 2006, 2007

How do i do this? I tried putting a comma, and i tried putting a semi colon, but it always just grabs the first number "2006".

I know it cant be this hard! please help! THanks!

Enter another Label/Value combination like this:

Label Value

TravelYear 2006

TravelYear 2007

or you could write a little query to do it.

-Mike

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ok, this is actually not what im writing, i just tried to explain it in a simpler way, this is what i want

Label Value

Task National TN001, TN002, TN003, TN004, TN005, TN006, TN007

Task Vet TV001,TV002, TV003, TV004, TV005

Survey National SN001, SN002, SN003, SN004, SN005

and so on

Its a way of grouping the same type of tasks together in the parameter, so the user doesnt have to individually go through a long list of codes.

THere should be away to put one option with multiple values.

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You could manually create a dataset like this:

Select 'Task National' as Label, 'TN001, TN002, TN003, TN004, TN005, TN006, TN007' as Value

union

Select 'Task Vet' as Label, 'TV001,TV002, TV003, TV004, TV005' as Value

union

Select 'Survey National' as Label, 'SN001, SN002, SN003, SN004, SN005' as Value

Then parse the values and use them.

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I ended up just putting it in the where clause like this

Code Snippet

WHERE REGION_KEY=@.Region_Key

AND LEFT(Qry_Questions.[Question Code],2)IN (@.QuestionCode)

so it grouped the ones with the same 2 first letters. Works great!|||Nice job. Sometimes you have to be a little creative to get things to work right. :-)

Easy Report parameter Question

Im trying to hard code a Year in as an available value for the user to pick out of a drop down box. This is what i have so far.

Label Value

Travel Year 2006

well i want to go ahead and put two value for that one label , like this:

Label Value

Travel Year 2006, 2007

How do i do this? I tried putting a comma, and i tried putting a semi colon, but it always just grabs the first number "2006".

I know it cant be this hard! please help! THanks!

Enter another Label/Value combination like this:

Label Value

TravelYear 2006

TravelYear 2007

or you could write a little query to do it.

-Mike

|||

ok, this is actually not what im writing, i just tried to explain it in a simpler way, this is what i want

Label Value

Task National TN001, TN002, TN003, TN004, TN005, TN006, TN007

Task Vet TV001,TV002, TV003, TV004, TV005

Survey National SN001, SN002, SN003, SN004, SN005

and so on

Its a way of grouping the same type of tasks together in the parameter, so the user doesnt have to individually go through a long list of codes.

THere should be away to put one option with multiple values.

|||

You could manually create a dataset like this:

Select 'Task National' as Label, 'TN001, TN002, TN003, TN004, TN005, TN006, TN007' as Value

union

Select 'Task Vet' as Label, 'TV001,TV002, TV003, TV004, TV005' as Value

union

Select 'Survey National' as Label, 'SN001, SN002, SN003, SN004, SN005' as Value

Then parse the values and use them.

|||

I ended up just putting it in the where clause like this

Code Snippet

WHERE REGION_KEY=@.Region_Key

AND LEFT(Qry_Questions.[Question Code],2)IN (@.QuestionCode)

so it grouped the ones with the same 2 first letters. Works great!|||Nice job. Sometimes you have to be a little creative to get things to work right. :-)

Easy Report parameter Question

Im trying to hard code a Year in as an available value for the user to pick out of a drop down box. This is what i have so far.

Label Value

Travel Year 2006

well i want to go ahead and put two value for that one label , like this:

Label Value

Travel Year 2006, 2007

How do i do this? I tried putting a comma, and i tried putting a semi colon, but it always just grabs the first number "2006".

I know it cant be this hard! please help! THanks!

Enter another Label/Value combination like this:

Label Value

TravelYear 2006

TravelYear 2007

or you could write a little query to do it.

-Mike

|||

ok, this is actually not what im writing, i just tried to explain it in a simpler way, this is what i want

Label Value

Task National TN001, TN002, TN003, TN004, TN005, TN006, TN007

Task Vet TV001,TV002, TV003, TV004, TV005

Survey National SN001, SN002, SN003, SN004, SN005

and so on

Its a way of grouping the same type of tasks together in the parameter, so the user doesnt have to individually go through a long list of codes.

THere should be away to put one option with multiple values.

|||

You could manually create a dataset like this:

Select 'Task National' as Label, 'TN001, TN002, TN003, TN004, TN005, TN006, TN007' as Value

union

Select 'Task Vet' as Label, 'TV001,TV002, TV003, TV004, TV005' as Value

union

Select 'Survey National' as Label, 'SN001, SN002, SN003, SN004, SN005' as Value

Then parse the values and use them.

|||

I ended up just putting it in the where clause like this

Code Snippet

WHERE REGION_KEY=@.Region_Key

AND LEFT(Qry_Questions.[Question Code],2)IN (@.QuestionCode)

so it grouped the ones with the same 2 first letters. Works great!|||Nice job. Sometimes you have to be a little creative to get things to work right. :-)

Dynamically pick the source and destination tables

I want to write a SSIS which picks up the source and destination tables at runtime is it possible. As we have a SSIS which is used to pull data from oracle but the source and destination table name changes.

If the metadata changes (that is the column names change and/or data types) then you cannot do this without manually accounting for the differences.

If the structures are the same, then you can build SQL statements to select against the appropriate table name. You can build the SQL in a variable expression.|||

Would you please give an example for this.

|||A little bit of searching will help you out...

I found: http://blogs.conchango.com/jamiethomson/archive/2005/12/09/2480.aspx|||

All the source tables have different data type and columns, so I think it is not possible to have 1 common SSIS for all of them.

We are storing our packages under the FileSystem on the server and executing them via jobs. So my question is if we make the changes in the package in BIDS(our Solution file) will it be reflected in the job or we'll have to import the package in File System?

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Paarul wrote:

All the source tables have different data type and columns, so I think it is not possible to have 1 common SSIS for all of them.

We are storing our packages under the FileSystem on the server and executing them via jobs. So my question is if we make the changes in the package in BIDS(our Solution file) will it be reflected in the job or we'll have to import the package in File System?

If you edit the package that's being referenced in the job, then the changes will be picked up on the next iteration.