Just deleting the garbage gets you going but does not prevent it from happening again. Supplying a default ends the issue.

Congratulations. Children are the best thing in life.

I've seen a fix that looks promising... to populate the flat file configuration manager text delimiter to be:

'"'

That is, a double quote inside of single quotes.

Are configuration files two way in the BIDS 2008r2 IDE? I mean, if I save my configuration as "prodconfig" then remove the prodconfig from my list of configurations, then change...

I think this is bogus. The reason that I think it is bogus is that on the second bet you are excluding the door you picked from your first bet...

Maybe switch to a Powershell script.

Okay, false alarm - it is an orderly universe after all...

The 14 was the correct number after all! It was a case of not having my expected results correctly documented.

Moderator,...

I'll have to just report back when I find the answer, I think.

Thanks.

Thank you both for your responses.

I created a test with fake data, but since it works correctly, so it isn't much good:

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[t1](

[provider_id] [varchar](15) NULL,

[Total Members] [int] NULL

) ON...

I'm an SSRS newbe...

I have created a report with a subreport.

I have a column group which contains a value "EOB" for each of 12 monthly periods.

I want to click on...

Okay, the problem for me was:

One of the servers had a firewall that it shouldn't have had.

One of the linked servers had a path that was too long.

I didn't resolve...

I just received it. I'm thinking that it is a double hop problem (rights to read or write to that server share).

Uzbekistan is an often-overlooked country, because it is nested in between Afghanistan, Pakistan and Hot-Doggie-Stan.... 😛

Ironically, IT was for me a survival job in that I never wanted to enter the technical or business world, because it didn't appeal to me. It sounded so mundane....

The funny thing about knowledge and ideas is that when they are hoarded they do not multiply but rather stagnate, diminishing not only your friend's usefulness, but greatness. Watch "Where...

>>>Lastly, does SharePoint require an administrator?

Ouch! The exact question we are facing around here!

My thought has been "let's hire a SP person"... but then, for $5000, what if one...