grouping and sorting in matrix control

I have a dataset returned from sql server that can be represented for the
purpose of this discussion with 2 columns. From the server all the data is
sorted first by column 1 and then by column 2 so that the resultset looks
like the following:
column1, column2, column3
a, 1/1/2007, 10
a, 2/1/2007, 30
a, 3/1/2007, 15
b, 10/1/2006, 5
b, 11/1/2006, 1
b, 12/1/2006, 100
b, 1/1/2007, 10
b, 2/1/2007, 9
c, 11/1/2006, 22
c, 12/1/2006, 33
c, 1/1/2007, 44
When I put this data into a matrix with the dates making the columns and
column1 values for each row I get the following
1/1/2007 2/1/2007 3/1/2007 10/1/2006 11/1/2006 12/1/2006
a 10 30 15
b 10 9 5 1
100
c 44 22
33
what I want is the following:
10/1/2006 11/1/2006 12/1/2006 1/1/2007 2/1/2007 3/1/2007
a 10
30 15
b 5 1 100 10 9
c 22 33 44
With the dates sorted. I know I can do it by changing the stored proc but
that opens up all sorts of issues with other things. Is there any way to get
the data looking like I want using reporting services and not modifying the
stored proc?
thanksOn Feb 28, 2:11 pm, Brian <B...@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> I have a dataset returned from sql server that can be represented for the
> purpose of this discussion with 2 columns. From the server all the data is
> sorted first by column 1 and then by column 2 so that the resultset looks
> like the following:
> column1, column2, column3
> a, 1/1/2007, 10
> a, 2/1/2007, 30
> a, 3/1/2007, 15
> b, 10/1/2006, 5
> b, 11/1/2006, 1
> b, 12/1/2006, 100
> b, 1/1/2007, 10
> b, 2/1/2007, 9
> c, 11/1/2006, 22
> c, 12/1/2006, 33
> c, 1/1/2007, 44
> When I put this data into a matrix with the dates making the columns and
> column1 values for each row I get the following
> 1/1/2007 2/1/2007 3/1/2007 10/1/2006 11/1/2006 12/1/2006
> a 10 30 15
> b 10 9 5 1
> 100
> c 44 22
> 33
> what I want is the following:
> 10/1/2006 11/1/2006 12/1/2006 1/1/2007 2/1/2007 3/1/2007
> a 10
> 30 15
> b 5 1 100 10 9
> c 22 33 44
> With the dates sorted. I know I can do it by changing the stored proc but
> that opens up all sorts of issues with other things. Is there any way to get
> the data looking like I want using reporting services and not modifying the
> stored proc?
> thanks
>From your results, it looks like column2 is sorting aphabetically (I'm
assuming that column2 is not defined as a datetime field in the report
or dataset). You should be able to use the conversion function CDate()
in your sort expression. Something like this should work: CDate(Fields!
column2.Value) and the direction should be ascending. Hope this helps.
Regards,
Enrique Martinez
Sr. SQL Server Developer