Thanks j.d.  I did as suggested to no avail.  I even cleared ALL the SQL out of dataset query (basic query, no SP), made sure there were no parameters under the...

Did try that, even getting out of the IDE entirely, then rebooting even, still can't get any parameters to go away on the preview even though the parameters tab in...

This is actualy a question for responder wc700, but was wondering if you had some skeleton SQL to do a basic sum operation if one wanted say a report with totals...