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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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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

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

Creating a report using SQL Azure as data source


Although Reporting Services is not installed in the Cloud as of this writing, Microsoft is considering placing it in the near future. Moving SQL Server Reporting Services has the main advantage of reduced latency as the data is directly accessed in the datacenter. This may entail providing access to the database to a larger group of report authoring personnel. Given the fact that Reporting Services is not in the cloud, does not prevent the generation of reports based on the data on SQL Azure. In fact, SQL Azure is included as one of the data sources that can be configured using SSRS. In the following section, a procedure is described to connect to SQL Azure from BIDS to generate the report.

Note

The author recommends his book Learning SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 published by Packt Publishing, which explains report authoring in greater detail.

In order to generate a report using BIDS, perform the following steps:

  1. 1. Start the SQL Server...

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