I have a large report that has been nothing but trouble for everyone involved (I am the third person on this project) and have run into a bit of a stumbling point. Before I get too hung up and frustrated, I wanted to ask here and hopefully find a solution from someone more knowledgable than me. I did a Google search but couldn't find much to solve my particular problem and after seeing a SO forum post where people started a flamewar on the first page of responses about the helpfulness of forums, I figured I was wasting my time there.
I have a large report that has a dozen datasets and a dozen tables pulling fields from each one individually. There is no problem there.
Now, at the top of the report is another table with a header and some other information. This table also has 12 fields with names matching each of the dozen datasets and next to them is a currently blank field. The blank field needs to be filled in with a total number of records being pulled in each dataset. However, I cannot figure out how to get this table to work with that many datasets. I've seen mention of a Lookup function, but from what I can tell, that requires you to join the various datasets together to the dataset of that particular table. My header table does not have a dataset tied to it, nor is there one universal dataset to tie each of the other dozen to.
So, any hints anyone? I apologize if thi sounds vague, I'm just not sure how to better explain my endeavor.
Also, in case I didn't mention, I'm building this report in SSRS (SQL 2008 R2)