http://blog.CustomerEffective.com/blog/ Microsoft Dynamics CRM Blog from Customer Effective, CRM Experts and a Microsoft Inner Circle partner. en-US Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:39:00 -0500 http://www.typepad.com/ http://blog.CustomerEffective.com/blog/2011/12/syntax-when-using-ctes-in-an-ssrs-report-dataset.html http://blog.CustomerEffective.com/blog/2011/12/syntax-when-using-ctes-in-an-ssrs-report-dataset.html CTE’s (Common Table Equivalent) are very useful when writing complex SQL queries. I recently used one in a dataset in a report. This was a secondary dataset that I was appending to an existing report which was already in CRM... <p>CTE’s (Common Table Equivalent) are very useful when writing complex SQL queries.&#0160; I recently used one in a dataset in a report.&#0160; This was a secondary dataset that I was appending to an existing report which was already in CRM and worked correctly.&#0160; Designing and testing the reports in Visual Studio worked as well.&#0160; Only after uploading and running the report from within Microsoft CRM did I get an error naming the dataset as the culprit.</p> <p>I suspected the CTE to be culprit as the dataset query was working fine.&#0160; Thanks to a bright and esteemed colleague of mine, the answer was provided to me.&#0160; A semicolon ( ; ) must be inserted before your WITH expression.</p> <p>Incorrect <br />WITH RepIDs as (Select * FROM SystemUser …)</p> <p>Correct <br />;WITH RepIDS as (Select * FROM SystemUser …) <br /> <br />I updated my dataset, saved the report to Microsoft CRM, and ran the report successfully.</p> Mark Weilandt Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:36:09 -0500