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Microsoft SQL Azure Enterprise Application Development

You're reading from   Microsoft SQL Azure Enterprise Application Development Moving business applications and data to the cloud can be a smooth operation when you use this practical guide. Learn to make the most of SQL Azure and acquire the knowledge to build enterprise-ready applications.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849680806
Length 420 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jayaram Krishnaswamy Jayaram Krishnaswamy
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Microsoft SQL Azure: Enterprise Application Development
Credits
About the Author
1. Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
2. Preface
1. Cloud Computing and Microsoft Azure Services Platform FREE CHAPTER 2. SQL Azure Services 3. Working with SQL Azure Databases from Visual Studio 2008 4. SQL Azure Tools 5. Populating SQL Azure Databases 6. SSIS and SSRS Applications Using SQL Azure 7. Working with Windows Azure Hosting 8. Database Applications on Windows Azure Platform Accessing SQL Server Databases 9. Synchronizing SQL Azure 10. Recent Developments

Consuming SQL Azure data with PowerPivot


PowerPivot with SQL Azure gives an enormous amount of power to SQL Azure. The reason for this, is that PowerPivot can work with massive amounts of data in reasonable time compared to other methods. PowerPivot teaming with SQL Azure is the best way for business intelligence to achieve excellent performance. PowerPivot is an add-in for Excel2010, which means you need to have Excel2010 on your computer. The data that PowerPivot extracts from the database will be stored in a local OLAP database engine in memory, which provides the analytic capability to Excel2010. Call it a combo Excel + Analysis services in one package.

In this short section, we will not look at any of the exotic things you can do with PowerPivot, but show you how easy it is to connect and extract data from SQL Azure. We assume you have Excel2010 (in here a Beta version of Microsoft Office Professional Plus is installed). You can explore PowerPivot further at http://www.powerpivot.com...

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