Deleting Parameter From Preview Pain

Product: Reporting Services 2005

Visual Studio 2005

I've added parameters to my query in the Data Tab. Then removed one. The preview pane still shows the deleted parameter even though it does not exist in my query. I've tried opening the dataset settings and re-adding the parameter, saving, then deleting. This ghost parameter will not disappear from the Preview Pane. Is this a bug or am I not deleting it correctly.

Thanks,

Matt

To solve your preview pane pain, you need to remove the parameter from the Report Parameters collection.

Select Report from the toolbar and Report Parameters. When you add a query parameter a Report Parameter is automatically created for you, but the same is not true when your remove query parameters.

-chris

Delete records in SQL table, which are present in Excel

Hi everyone,

I have a task to create a dts package, which will delete records in a SQL table, which are present on a sheet tab in Excel. I know how to transfer records from Excel to SQL table and vice versa, but not sure how I can delete the records in SQL table, which are present in Excel. Note that there are just 2 columns - one is a key and the other name.

Thank you all in advance,
SauravI would NEVER recommend using Excel as source data for a relational database. You are begging for data corruption.

At the very least, load the Excel data into a staging table within your database where it can be cleansed and verified before you start deleting production data based upon its contents.

Bad idea. What is the source of the Excel data?