Thanks for your suggestions Dan. I almost positive it's not the second derived column task that's failing. The numbers that appear next to the arrows in the Data...
Yea it works if i hardcode the connection string into it. Also the variable is of type string. It's definitely an interesting problem. I've tried to quadruple...
Yes I'm sure those two things are correct. As I said if I set my variable equal to the same string in the xml file manually in Business Intelligence...