Question

In SQL Reporting Services, is it possible to retrieve a certain value from a dataset, depending on values of multiple other columns in the same row?

So, if this was my dataset:

Id    | Name      | Number | Score
1     | "John"    | 16     | 22
2     | "Jane"    | 64     | 24
3     | "John"    | 20     | 18

I would like to have some sort of ‘where’ clause, so I can retrieve all/the value(s) where Name == 'John' and Number == 16 for example. This would then return 22.

I’ve tried LookUpSet, but that will only compare one other column value. I need to compare two.

Answer 1

Actually the way the Lookup functions work is to use expressions for the comparison. So you can do something like this if I understand your problem correctly:

=Lookup(Fields!Name.Value+”-“+CStr(Fields.Number.Value), Fields!Name.Value + “-” + CStr(Fields.Number.Value), Fields!Score.Value,”Dataset2″)