Table Grouping in Reporting Module

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If you want a variable report format, where parts of the report vanish when not needed, you must use nested queries. Or, get a nested query structure via script. That is, query efficiently with joins, then reformat into a new data key with nested keys programmatically. See this topic for the basic procedure:

Report with Scripted Nested Data

The report datasource scripting examples explain how to access the nested data in another key for use constructing a custom dataset. What I don’t see is how to construct nested data that would be suitable for use with a child table in a table group. I have a parent dataset that I’m constructing via script due to annoying limitations of an ancient SQL Server 2000 instance. I need a subquery for each row that could be done with a normal query, but there’s no way to add a regular subquery to a s…