I'm using Internet Explorer 7.0... I don't think I should need any plug-ins to view the reports should I?

The version of Reporting Services I'm using is for SQL Server 2000,...

Nice, thanks for that. One more thing... what syntax do I use to pass a parameter to the report I'm navigating to (when using an expression like below)? I've tried...

Cheers, I am going to do that eventually. The problem is that the data is currently stored as compressed XML in BLOBS in Oracle. I actually need the data extracted...

That would be nice but the actual text is larger that 4000 chars.

I'm scrapping this idea and doing the extraction of the XML on the oracle side as there at...

TEST? This datatype isn't recognised for SQL Server 2000... Did you mean TEXT?, if so this is invalid for a local variable.

There are no services in the configuration manager... there must be something amiss here.

I can't put them into one variable because the combined text is larger than any local variable will store. The data is originally from a BLOB in an oracle table...

It's actually xml data being transferred from an oracle database stored in a BLOBs. The application that read the data would decompress and then extract the data from the XML...