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Metcalf
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Posted - 2010-08-10 : 15:17:07
I am tinkering with SQL Server Reporting Services, and either I'm asking the wrong question or using the wrong terminology to ask the right question, but regardless, after some fruitless searching I wind up here.

This is what I am doing... my organization consists of three 'sister' companies all under one AD roof, using the same ERP system, but the ERP data for each company is under a separate DB with identical schema.

Is there any way to A) use AD to set the default Data Source and B) still allow users a method by which to peek at data from the other company, if need be? Or do I have to just design/deploy copies of every report, for each company? That could get unwieldy, as there are literally hundreds of reports we'd like to end up sticking on SSRS.

visakh16
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52326 Posts

Posted - 2010-08-11 : 10:29:27
seems like what you need is typically design a warehouse where you merge data from all companies and populate tables which can be used by reports and then in reports use a parameter to select require company and display the reqd data alone for interested company.

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