For everyone playing with SQL Azure, what are you using for reporting? Do the Visual Studio reports connect seamlessly? What about reporting services?
Reporting Services will still connect and work as normal, BUT there is no SSRS service on the Azure platform. So it means that you will connect (most likely through ADO) from a different data centre (either your own or hosted SSRS) to SQL Azure, meaning that potentially a lot (too much) data has to come down the wire.
SSRS and SSAS for Azure are not officially on the Azure roadmap yet
My recommendation for a very fast, full featured reporting solution is Izenda Reports. It runs on SQL Azure and is designed for OEM integration with other Azure apps. It streams data from an Azure db or from an off-site db. Just give it a connection string and go.
SQL Azure Reporting was just announced at PDC10 (Oct 28, 2010) and a CTP should be available by the end of the year:
Link
We have at least one customer using ActiveReports with SQL Azure. Just connect with the normal SQL provider for ADO.NET or you can use unbound mode with ActiveReports.
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We are planing to move our on premise database to Azure DB. We have SSRS reports as well. Is there any solution with Azure database for SSRS?
Unfortunately SSRS is not supported on Azure SQL Database. If you need SSRS it makes more sense to use a SQL VM on Azure or a SQL Server instance on-premises.
In this URL you will find deployment strategies for SSRS on Azure SQL VM.
You can deploy SSRS to a VM and use Azure SQL Database as the data source, but maybe is cheaper to have your databases on the same SQL VM.
Once you deploy the VM containing SSRS, you can then connect SSRS to an Azure SQL DB. This article discusses connecting Azure SQL Database to SSRS.
If you want to vote for SSRS to be offered as PaaS service please vote here. However, here Microsoft states is not planning to add SSRS to Azure SQL Database in the future.
When subscribing to the Azure SQL SaaS. Can I get access to SSIS and SSRS?
SSIS: Does a Azure SQL subscription allow me to build SSIS package on my local computer.
SSRS: Do I need another on-premises license to run a reporting server? As I understand, there is no SaaS version for SSRS, does this mean I will have to buy a full SQL server license for reporting?
Thank you in advance.
Microsoft's SaaS offering for BI and Reporting is Power BI. Which is adding support for traditional SSRS reports, and self-service data flows. See announcement here.
And if for all SQL Server development, you can always use the free SQL Server Developer Edition and SQL Server Data Tools on your local machine.
You need to have a VM to run SSRS which means you need IAAS. For SSIS you have Azure support using Integration Runtime means you would be using SSIS Catalog in Azure SQL Database.
When you procure a VM, you could always opt for VM with Sql Server installed else you could bring your own licensed version with you. Also there is the free Sql Server Developer edition available for solely personal usage. For SSIS, not really that you have to make the development in cloud - you would be using SSDT and then publish your packages to cloud.
Links - deploy & run ssis package in azure & procure Integration runtime
Is it required to have sharepoint server for working with PowerView in SSRS? I have SQL Server with MSBI 2012. I am BI developer. I wanted to explore with power view. I got an addon for SSRS from microsoft portal (PivotViewer Extension for Reporting Services – CTP2). But relese notes says that it needs Share Point.
I got an other link to download (Microsoft SQL Server 2012 With Power View For Multidimensional Models CTP) this is a 2 GB file and sounds like independent of sharepoint. I am confused. Please help me in understing the working of PowerView with SSRS. Many Thnaks.
Here is an ebook explaining all SSRS models available for SQL Server 2012, with walkthroughs
http://www.scribd.com/doc/102370834/SQL-Server-2012-Tutorials-Reporting-Services
Sharepoint server is required for Power View in SSRS. Please check this document: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh231687.aspx
Power View also comes in Excel 2012 (see http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/power-view-explore-visualize-and-present-your-data-HA102835634.aspx ). It can access data within worksheets as well as external data sources and has same visualization capabilities.
Power View is now available through Excel 2013 Professional Plus.
You can connect to external data source or use the internal PowerPivot model.
You can now use Power BI in SSRS to create a report such as 'Power View' reports.
A technical Preview of Power BI reports in SQL Server Reporting Services released in January 2017. You can now download the software and install it on your own on-premises VM or server. In the latter case, you’ll need:
Your own VM or server (not one in production use)
Windows Server 2012 or later (or Windows 8 or later)
.NET Framework 4.5.2 or later SQL
Server Database Engine (2008 or later), to store the report server
database
SQL Server Analysis Services (2012 SP1 CU4 or later), to
store your data models
For more details, Please refer to below link:
Power BI reports in SQL Server Reporting Services: January 2017 Technical Preview now available
I am trying to find out if it is better to deploy Reporting Services and Sharepoint Server on the same Server or not and what would the reason be for either case. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
The most common reason that Reporting Services is not integrated with SharePoint is licensing restrictions. I am not a licensing expert, but I believe any server on which Reporting Services is installed must have a SQL Server license. Since SQL Server is usually installed on servers other than the SharePoint app servers, this involves extra SQL costs.
SharePoint and SSRS integration allows reports to be stored in a SharePoint library and provides an easier way to store report output (subscriptions) to SharePoint libraries.
I am using visual c# 2010 express edition and sql server 2008 R2 Express to develop a software. Now I need to create reports in c# based on the data that is stored in the sql database.
Based on this link : SQL 2008 R2 Express install option
I have the version "Database with Management Tools" installed. That is, the one which is 235 MB.
Now my requirements are that the software, which is written in c#, must be able to generate reports based on the data that is found in the sql database.
My questions are:
Must I install the Database with Advanced Services version (727 MB) to be able to use the MS SQL Reporting services?
Considering that I am using express editions for both c# and sql server, will I be able to make my software use the reporting services of MS SQL SERVER 2008 R2 Express? I have no experience in this but I have read somewhere that report viewer is not available in the express edition. Will that prevent me from using the reporting services?
If not, do you guys have any recommendations to other reporting tools that I might use? I need to generate reports containing graphs (free tools as long as possible, this is my dissertation project).
Thank you.
I wouldn't bother with full Reporting Services: I'd consider using the ReportViewer control in local mode in my app instead
This means you don't need SSRS installed at all: it's embedded in your app.