Question

I have the following query, which executes perfectly in SSMS. However, when I paste the code into a newly created dataset and click “execute”, BIDS crashes and closes without notice – any suggestion as to the reason?

Code:

SELECT  MSP_EpmProject_UserView.ProjectOwnerName,
        MSP_EpmProject_UserView.ProjectUID,
        CurrentActivities.Activities_Current
FROM    MSP_EpmProject_UserView 
        Left Join
            (Select t1.projectUID, STUFF(
                (Select ', ' + t2.TaskName
                From (SELECT   MSP_EpmProject_UserView.ProjectUID, MSP_EpmTask_UserView.TaskName
                    FROM MSP_EpmAssignmentByDay_UserView INNER JOIN MSP_EpmTask_UserView ON MSP_EpmAssignmentByDay_UserView.TaskUID = MSP_EpmTask_UserView.TaskUID INNER JOIN MSP_EpmProject_UserView on MSP_EpmAssignmentByDay_UserView.ProjectUID = MSP_EpmProject_UserView.ProjectUID
                    WHERE (MSP_EpmAssignmentByDay_UserView.TimeByDay = @refDate) AND MSP_EpmProject_UserView.[Project Departments] = @prjDep) t2
                Where t1.ProjectUID = t2.ProjectUID
                Order by t2.TaskName
                For XML Path(''), Type).value('.','varchar(max)'),1,2,'') as Activities_Current
            From
                (SELECT   MSP_EpmProject_UserView.ProjectUID, MSP_EpmTask_UserView.TaskName
                FROM MSP_EpmAssignmentByDay_UserView INNER JOIN MSP_EpmTask_UserView ON MSP_EpmAssignmentByDay_UserView.TaskUID = MSP_EpmTask_UserView.TaskUID INNER JOIN MSP_EpmProject_UserView on MSP_EpmAssignmentByDay_UserView.ProjectUID = MSP_EpmProject_UserView.ProjectUID
                WHERE (MSP_EpmAssignmentByDay_UserView.TimeByDay = @refDate) AND MSP_EpmProject_UserView.[Project Departments] = @prjDep) t1
            Group by t1.ProjectUID) CurrentActivities On CurrentActivities.ProjectUID = MSP_EpmProject_UserView.ProjectUID
WHERE   (MSP_EpmProject_UserView.[Project Departments] = @prjDep)

Answer 1

I managed to work my way around this by just pasting the code into the dataset, updating the fields, NOT clicking the “query designer” and by manually adding the parameters BIDS did not detect automatically (in my case an INT parameter for DATEADD() ). When I then close the dataset windows and use the dataset in my report, everything works fine