List of Month and Year in SSRS report parameter?

Question

Hi, I have two parameters in my SSRS Report i.e. Month and Year. I want to show the list of all Months in dropdown and years for a particular range say 1995-Current Year.
Can any one suggest me the query for how to get it to work.Thanks!!
MCP

Answer 1

I am not sure I what you're business needs are for this report.  You stated that you need the month and year for parameters.  If this is the case then there has to be a date and time column in which you can query against to provide both the month(s) and year.  In order to accomplish this using t-sql without querying an existing column would require a loop or cursor based approach,which can negatively impact performance, or a union statement specifying a string literal and the effort to write either of these would exceed the effort required to statically assign the parameter values in reporting services.  The below query shows how to statically create a query for each month and its ordinal position in the year and the same could be done with the year(s) 1995-2009, but this process involves more resources than assigning the static values for the parameters
SELECT DATENAME(MONTH, 1 ) AS MONTH,
1
UNION
SELECT DATENAME(MONTH, 2 ) AS MONTH,
2
UNION
SELECT DATENAME(MONTH, 3 ) AS MONTH,
3
UNION
SELECT DATENAME(MONTH, 4 ) AS MONTH,
4
UNION
SELECT DATENAME(MONTH, 5 ) AS MONTH,
5
UNION
SELECT DATENAME(MONTH, 6 ) AS MONTH,
6
UNION
SELECT DATENAME(MONTH, 7 ) AS MONTH,
7
UNION
SELECT DATENAME(MONTH, 8 ) AS MONTH,
8
UNION
SELECT DATENAME(MONTH, 9 ) AS MONTH,
9
UNION
SELECT DATENAME(MONTH, 10) AS MONTH,
10
UNION
SELECT DATENAME(MONTH, 11) AS MONTH,
11
UNION
SELECT DATENAME(MONTH, 12) AS MONTH,
12
David Dye