I'm a bit confused with this one.

I have a Dataset with a BackupDate and a BackupTime as well as a BackupType. The BackupDate is comprised of 12 characters from the left of a datetime string within a table. The BackupTime is comprised of 8 characters from the right of that same datetime string. So for example: BackupDate would be 'December 12 2008' and the BackupTime would be '12:53PM.'

I have added an XY-scatter chart to the report. I've added a 'series' value for the BackupType (so one can distinguish between a Full/Incr/Log backup). I've added a category value of BackupDate and set the Scale for the X-axis from the Min of BackupDate to the Max of BackupDate. I've then added an item to the Values with the Y variable set to BackupTime and the X variable set to BackupDate. The interval for the Y-axis is 12:00AM to 11:59PM and the formatting for the labels is 'hh:mmtt'.

The BackupTime matches the format of the Y-axis. The BackupDate matches the format of the X-axis. 10 entries are retrieved by my Dataset and the Legend is properly populated by the BackupType field.

No points are being plotted on the graph and no markers/pointers are shown if they are enabled. There should be a point on the graph for every point in time of each day there is a backup of a specific type.

Am I missing something? Does anyone know of a good tutorial dealing specifically with XY-scatter graphs and using them in a way I intend?

I am using the 2005 version of SSRS rather than the 2008 version.

Screenshot of what my chart currently looks like:

In case it could be dataset related:

SELECT     TOP (10) backup_type, LTRIM(RTRIM(LEFT(backup_finish_date, 
                  12))) AS BackupDate, LTRIM(RTRIM(RIGHT(backup_finish_date, 8))) AS BackupTime
 FROM         DBARepository.Backup_History

As requested, here are the results of this query. There is a Where clause to constrain the results to a specific database of a specific server that was not included in the above SQL Query.

Log      Dec 26 2008	12:00PM
Log   Dec 27 2008	4:00AM
Log   Dec 27 2008	8:00AM
Log   Dec 27 2008	12:00PM
Log   Dec 27 2008	4:00PM
Log   Dec 27 2008	8:00PM
Database      Dec 27 2008	10:01PM
Log   Dec 28 2008	12:00AM
Log   Dec 28 2008	4:00AM
Log   Dec 28 2008	8:00AM