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BI In The Cloud

With

SQL Azure Reporting Services

Simran JindalSolidQ, Sweden

http://simranjindal.wordpress.com@simranjindal

https://www.facebook.com/simranjindal.blog

Who am I?

•Simran Jindal

•Business Intelligence Consultant at SolidQ Sweden

•MCTS/MCITP SQL Server 2005/2008

•Worked with SQL Server since SQL 7.0, primarily as a DEVELOPER

•Microsoft BI stack since 2006

•Worked across a wide spectrum of verticals, such as Education, Retail, Finance, Public sector, Non-Governmental Welfare Organizations and Real Estate.

Agenda

•Brief Windows Azure Platform Overview

•Brief Azure Portal Overview

•Brief SQL Azure Overview

•SQL Azure Reporting• Overview

• Scenarios

• Features

•Demo• Operational Reports

• Embedded Reports

• Remote management

SQL Azure Reporting Limitations

WHY CLOUD?

Windows Azure – Design Tenets

Global Datacenter footprint

San Antonio, TXChicago, ILDublin, IrelandAmsterdamSingaporeHong Kong

DEMO

What is SQL Azure?

• Is a relational database service in the cloud

• can serve both local and cloud based applications.

• no individual databases and machines. • SQL Azure databases is distributed across

many nodes. So no patching and no maintenance.

• You only pay for the databases consumed, something like your electricity bill

• Provisioning, management and synchronization of data between on-premise and SQL Azure databases is seamless.

DEMO

Windows Azure Platform

General Purpose Programing Languages

Compute

Storage

ManagementMarketplace

App Fabric

CDN

Windows Azure Platform

Relational database

Data Sync

What is SQL Azure Reporting?

Key Benefits

•Rich Reporting Experience

•Manageability

•Familiar Development Tools

•Scalability and High Availability

•Cost Effectiveness

•Server provisioning in just a few clicks

SQL Azure Reporting Scenarios

SQL Azure Reporting

SQL Azure

Database

Windows Azure

Application

Operational Reports

Embedded Reports

RDL FileBI

Developer Studio

DEMO

SQL Azure Reporting Limitations•No support for subscriptions and scheduling functions

•Creating reports from Report Builder 1.0, Report Builder 2.0, and Report Builder 3.0 is not supported.

•No Report Manager.

•No support custom assemblies and custom extensions

•Only SQL Azure as a data source is supported

•Reporting Services Configuration manager is not available.

•SharePoint integrated mode is not supported. Only native mode is supported.

•Links to external images is not supported.

Reference LinksWindows Azure https://www.windowsazure.com

Get Started with Azure Reporting Previewhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/gg430129.aspx

SQL Server Database Product Sampleshttp://msftdbprodsamples.codeplex.com/releases/view/37304

To log bugs please visithttps://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/Feedback

Security Considerationshttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/gg552871.aspx#SecurityforReportApplications

Other useful links for SQL Azure Reportinghttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/fc500c2e-d79b-4dd2-9a53-cc7b49008431#BKMK_Useful_Links

Guidelines and Limitations of SQL Azure Previewhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/gg430132.aspx

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