I have a SQL Server Database on Azure Cloud and I want to get a report server up and runnning using SSRS that would accesses the data on that database.
Does anyone have any experience with this scenario, or could provide me some guidance on how to go about this.
I'm reading about how SSRS would run on a Azure VM and that the SQL Server and it's respective Database(s) would be installed on that Azure VM. That's not my situation as I have existing SQL Database that exists outside of any VM I spin up.
Thanks,
You will need to host SSRS either on an Azure VM or on premise.
In this link deployment topologies for SSRS on Azure VM are discussed.
One strategy is to deploy SSRS to a VM and use Azure SQL Database as the data source.
Once you deploy the VM containing SSRS, you can then connect SSRS to an Azure SQL DB. This artcle discusses connecting Azure SQL Database to SSRS.
Hope this helps!
Another approach to SSRS support for SQL Azure is SQL SSRS containers. Windocks provides an automated approach that delivers configured SSRS containers for SQL Azure source databases. The advantage of containers in this case includes updating images, and greater scalability.
That's correct, you'll need to migrate your database to a SQL Server running in an Azure VM. You can use the Azure Export Service (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/f6899710-634e-425a-969d-8db1267e9471#ExportDB) to export your Azure Database into a dacpac. You can then import the dacpac to the SQL Server VM.
You can set up a Azure VM with SQL Server, start up the SSRS Reporting Configuration Manager. Go to SQL Server Management studio on your VM and create a linked server to your existing SQL Database. Create your queries in the VM database to reference the linked server's data. Then create your reports using the database on the VM, but those queries will be pulling the data from your non-VM database.
Unfortunately, SSRS not supported by Azure Sql Server.
Power BI service (premium), now allows you to upload SSRS files, that can connect to the Azure DB. https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/public-preview-of-paginated-reports-in-power-bi-premium-now-available/
Actually you do not to have your Azure SQL Database on the Azure VM. All Specify your connection string to point to your Azure SQL Database
SSRS does not support Azure SQL DB for its Catalog and Temp DBs. This is a known issue. You have use to SQL Server (on-prem or Azure VM). You can create and run reports that consume date from Azure SQL DB though.
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I have an existing PBIX file that uses on-premise SQL server as data source and there is a gateway on PBI service for it. Now I want the same PBIX file to be able to use Azure SQL database as data source.
I am able to connect PBI desktop version to Azure SQL database, I published the report to power bi service.
As per my research we do not need a data gateway for Azure.
How do I set up Power BI service in order to connect to the power BI file? I put in the credentials as well and the report does not load.
Error shows as:
It could be the Networking setting of your Azure SQL Server. Either the firewall rules, or the "Allow Azure services and resources to access this server" setting?
screenshot of Networking tab of an Azure SQL Server in Azure Portal
I am migrating from an on-prem SQL database and on-prem SharePoint server to Azure SQL Database and SharePoint Online.
In the current setup I have a SharePoint library containing Excel files that contain data from the SQL database. The connection is defined in an odc file. Excel Services Authentication is setup in this odc using a stored account. This allows data refresh from Excel Web App.
I am trying to setup the same thing in our new environment, but can't find any information on how to set it up. I have tried creating an excel file with a connection to the Azure SQL database and uploading that into a document library in SharePoint Online. If I open the workbook in the browser and click refresh data I get an error saying unable to refresh one or more data connections. If I open in the Desktop App then I can refresh without any issues. Is what I'm trying to achieve possible or do I need to rethink the setup?
Azure SQL Database is not supported. Azure SQL Managed Instance is supported with SharePoint Servers 2016 and 2019. See all the SQL Server options for SharePoint Server.
For SharePoint online you need Business Connectivity Services (BCS) to connect with data services and although the following document: Manage Business Connectivity Service Applications references Azure SQL Database, I believe that Azure SQL Managed Instance is supported but not Azure SQL Database. SQL Managed Instance is a full featured SQL Server instance on an Azure VM. SQL Database is a PaaS service with a subset of SQL Server functionality.
How to identify workload ? testing performance issue ?
Before migration what i have to check in the VM ?
after migration any db setting need to change ?
Your question is broad. Generally, you could work on the Azure VM as usual as you do on your on-premise VM.
Before your migration, you could consider what sizes of Azure VM suitable for your SQL server and OS server version is supported on Azure VM. See the sizes for Windows virtual machines in Azure. Also, you may want to test for SQL Database compatibility issues before you start the migration process referring to this blog.
You could migrate on-premises SQL Server or SQL Server on Azure VMs to Azure SQL Database using the Data Migration Assistant. Here are the step-by-step instructions on this tool. You also could use Azure backup service to back up Azure IaaS VMs.
More references:
How To Move or Migrate SQL Server Workload to Azure SQL Database Cloud Services or Azure VM – All version of SQL Server – Step-By-Step
Act now! Migrate your customers running Windows Server and SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 to Azure
How to save the reports to a directory using SSRS with Azure?
You need an Azure VM (IaaS) where you can install a SQL Server instance and install SQL Server Reporting Services. On that Azure VM you can save your reports. You can also save your reports on an on-premise SQL Server.
Once created the Azure VM with SSRS installed you can create reports that connect to Azure SQL Database databases as source of data.
SQL Server Reporting Services is not part of Azure SQL Database (PaaS) and is not available as SaaS in Azure either. It is only available as (IaaS).
What I am trying to find out is during SharePoint installation (lets say in an Azure VM), can I use "Sql Databases" to create numerous DBs created by SharePoint? I am asking this because I recently went through this exercise in AWS only to find out that RDS (AWS variant of RDBMS as a service) does not support SharePoint databases.
No, using Azure SQL Database is not a supported configuration when running SharePoint in Azure Virtual Machines. You can provision Virtual Machines running SQL Server though (recommended).
Here is a guide that walks you through considerations for running SharePoint workloads in Azure.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn275958.aspx