SQL Azure Reporting Preview

Microsoft SQL Azure Reporting Preview is a cloud-based reporting service for the Windows Azure Platform built on SQL Server Reporting Services technologies. SQL Azure Reporting provides many benefits, including rapid provisioning, cost-effective scalability, high availability, reduced management overhead and secure access for viewing and managing reports. SQL Azure Reporting offers the following capabilities:

• Host operational reports based on report data from existing SQL Azure databases. Operational reports are report definition language (RDL) reports.
  
  
• Embed the Visual Studio Report Viewer AJAX control in on-premise Web applications or cloud-based Windows Azure applications to add rich reporting to custom applications. The Report Viewer control points to reports hosted on report servers.
  
  
• Users can view reports hosted in SQL Azure Reporting using just a browser. The Reporting Services URL access syntax makes it easy for users to render a specific report and also specify a report format such as Excel or PDF. Users of custom applications can view reports in the application or service.
  
  

To use SQL Azure Reporting, you must have a subscription to Windows Azure and then add reporting to the subscription. For more information, see Getting Started with SQL Azure Reporting Preview.

SQL Azure is the relational database service on the Windows Azure platform. For more information, see SQL Azure.

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