SQL Azure Databases are the core of many Azure Offerings

 Including this one announced in December 2015.

As announced today Targit's BI and Analytics platform announced its first offering of Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines.

This allows access to advanced data discovery; simple self-service BI analytics; comprehensive reporting with cutting edge dashboards in Azure Cloud. It works using the Bring Your Own License Model similar to its on-premises infrastructure (pay-as-you-go).

These are the declared benefits as seen on the Targit site:

• No upfront investment for hardware and software licensing: TARGIT on Azure users are able to scale up or out over time without the typical massive reinvestment in additional hardware and software.
• Full support for Azure database technologies: TARGIT Decision Suite 2015 comes with official support for Azure SQL Database, the dedicated relational database service hosted on Azure.  
• Fast ROI realization: TARGIT on Azure has a rapid timeline for deployment, and is the most cost-effective way to get started with BI. Users don’t need to have IT resources dedicated to managing an on-premises solution to glean problem-solving BI insights

Targit Decision Suite and data in SQL Server is expected to make all of the above possible

If have an Azure account you can create a new VM for Targit quite easily:
Read more here or go to Azure Portal

Their BI implementation overview from an image on their ebook which can be downloaded from their site.

 

Links in the book, Learn SQL Server Reporting Services 2012

My new book on SQL Server Reporting Services 2012 is about to be released and this post provides a list of links referenced in the book, sorted chapter wise.







Hyperlinks provide a gateway to the extensive literature that can be accessed on the Internet. They provide information (collective knowledgebase) above and beyond what one finds in a single article,book,blog or other media formats. However links in a printed book are useful to only those readers who would go to any lengths to find information but irksome, frustrating and almost useless to the others. They are of course useful in online formats such as eBooks.

In order to conform to page count limit set by the publishers (as you might have noticed computer books have become heftier and heftier) and yet provide guidance to the readers there is no better way than publishing a list of links that is chapter-wise sorted and placed in a location that is easy to access. This post is an attempt to do just that. However some essential information from Microsoft Documentation is used as is in the book in some of the chapters.

Chapter 1: Overview and Installation – SQL Server Reporting Services 2012

Operating System Requirements

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms144275.aspx.

Software requirements (Power Shell)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff637750(v=azure.10).aspx

Finding processor cores of the computer

http://hodentekhelp.blogspot.com/2013/01/how-do-i-find-number-of-cores-in.html

Download link for SQL Server2012 Enterprise Evaluation x64 bit

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29066

Options for SharePoint Integration

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh213532.aspx

Distributed replay controller

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff878183(v=SQL.110).aspx

Configuring reporting services 2012

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc281311.aspx

SQL Server 2012 Security related link

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms144228.aspx

Setting up IE browser to start with Administrator Privileges

http://hodentekhelp.blogspot.com/2013/01/how-to-start-ie-browser-with.html

SQL Server 2000 database files

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=23654

Attaching and detaching databases

http://msftdbprodsamples.codeplex.com/workitem/19203

Attaching/Detaching step-by-step

http://hodentek.blogspot.com/search?q=Sample+databases

Running script files, step-by-step

http://hodentekmsss.blogspot.com/2013/01/how-do-i-install-sample-database-using.html

Choosing SharePoint Server for SQL Server 2012 Integration

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dc6a3372-db26-43f0-b7aa-f725acc635c2

Installing SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7(x64)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee554869(office.14).aspx

SharePoint 2010 hardware and software requirements

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288751(v=office.14).aspx

Download link SharePoint2010 Trial

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=16631

Installing Microsoft Sync Frame work 1.0(x64)

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=141237

Get Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Native Client MSI

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=123718

Download and Install Windows 6.1-KB974405-x64.msu

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=17331

Get Microsoft Chart Controls for Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 (KB2500170).

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2500170

SharePoint2010 and SQL Server 2012 choice

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dc6a3372-db26-43f0-b7aa-f725acc635c2

Reporting Services 2012 Add-in for SharePoint 2010

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29068

Making changes to application pool identity

http://hodentekhelp.blogspot.com/2013/04/how-do-you-make-changes-to-application.html

Chapter 2: SQL Server Reporting Services 2012 Projects with Visual Studio 2012

SSDT and SQL Server 2012

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh272686(v=vs.103).aspx

SSDT first time problems

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/blogs/jamesserra/2012/04/13/ssdt-installation-confusion/print/

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ssdt/archive/2012/06/06/getting-started-with-localdb-debugging-using-ssdt.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage

SSDT and SSRS 2012

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlreportingservices/thread/1f005f31-82a6-4e1c-b221-cb2c798c4caa

SSDT December 2012 update

hodentekmsss.blogspot.com/2012/12/december-update-to-ssdt.html

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/hh297027

Report Designer

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms173745.aspx

Problem with report preview in VS Designer

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlreportingservices/thread/41d46c69-5a18-4915-8b5e-fc3c19da8db9

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlreportingservices/thread/38ff8d54-06aa-40c3-8916-378d5185320e

First edition

Learning SQL Server Reporting Services 2008, ISBN: 9781847196187, Packt Publishing, 2009

Export problem to MS Access

http://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/details/735375/business-intelligence-bids-ssdt-missing-referenced-assembly

Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate download site

http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/downloads

Report Viewer Controls

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms251671.aspx

Visual Studio 2010 download site

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=12187

Detailed description of Report Builder 2.0

http://dotnet.sys-con.com/node/982742 Part 1

http://jayaramkrishnaswamy.sys-con.com/node/1227111 Part 2

RDL and RDLC Schemas

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms252109.aspx

Report Viewer Runtime 2008 version

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=6576

Report Viewer Runtime 2010 package

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=6442

Report Viewer Runtime 2010 SP1

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=6610

Report Viewer Runtime 2012

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35747

Chapter 3: Overview of SQL Server Reporting Services 2012 Architecture, Features, and Tools

Major Components of Native Mode installation

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms157231.aspx

SharePoint Standalone Deployment for SQL Server 2012 Integration

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb510781(v=sql.105).aspx

Reporting Services 2012 Configuration details

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms155866.aspx

Regarding Report Parts and their usage

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee635721.aspx

ESRI Shape Files

http://www.esri.com/library/whitepapers/pdfs/shapefile.pdf

Regarding Report scheduling

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=232473

Creating, modifying and deleting Schedules

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms155897.aspx

Power View Features

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/power-view-explore-visualize-and-present-your-data-HA102835634.aspx

Authentication – Report Servers

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb283249.aspx

URL access parameters

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/1c3e680a-83ea-4979-8e79-fa2337ae12a3

Reporting Services Default Extensions

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms157231.aspx

Security, Data Processing, Rendering, Report Processing and Delivery Extensions

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh213576.aspx

Chapter 4: Working with Report Manager

Report Manager 2012 - Overview

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms157147.aspx

Configure a Report Server for Local Administration on Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb630430.aspx

Tasks and permissions on Native mode report server

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms159840.aspx

Launch error from while launching Report Builder from Report Manager

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/enUS/sqlreportingservices/thread/ec0a6b15-1816-4d6c-87c0-b2f1f28f3d04

Report Manager Site Settings

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181194.aspx

Report Manager F1 Help

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189690.aspx

System Role assignments (New/Edit)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186541.aspx

Clickthrough Reports (SSRS)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345252.aspx

Exporting Reports (Report Builder and SSRS)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd239307.aspx

Caching Reports (SSRS)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms155927.aspx

Chapter 5: Working with Report Manager

Learning SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services, Jayaram Krishnaswamy, Packt publishing, ISBN: 9781847196187, 1st Edition, March 2009


http://www.packtpub.com/learning-sql-server-2008-reporting-services/book/mid/010409ofvkyp

Chapter 5: Working with Report Builder 3.0

Report Builder: ENU\x86\ReportBuilder3.msi (24.8 MB) file download link

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29072

Report Builder 2.0 Interface description

http://dotnet.sys-con.com/node/982742 Part 1

Authoring Reports with Report Builder 2

http://jayaramkrishnaswamy.sys-con.com/node/1227111 Part 2

Data source properties - credentials

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178308.aspx

Chapter 7: Report Authoring with Report Builder 2.0

Learning SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services, Jayaram Krishnaswamy, Packt publishing, ISBN: 9781847196187, 1st Edition, March 2009

Report Parts in Report Designer (SSRS)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee635721.aspx

Chapter 6: Power View and Reporting Services

Business Intelligence Semantic Model

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/analysisservices/archive/2012/03/09/xvelocity-and-analysis-services.aspx

What’s new in Power View

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/whats-new-in-power-view-in-excel-2013-and-in-sharepoint-server-HA102901475.aspx

Comparison of Multidimensional and Tabular Model

http://www.jamesserra.com/archive/2012/04/sql-server-2012-multidimensional-vs-tabular/

Overview of Power View

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/3726.power-view-overview.aspx#Useful_links_for_Project_Crescent_and_SQL_Server_Denali

Power View Visualization

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/power-view-explore-visualize-and-present-your-data-HA102835634.aspx

Practicing Power View online

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oneclickbi/archive/2011/12/27/more-demos-of-power-view-available.aspx

News about Windows Azure HDInsight; and Power View/Power Pivot

http://redmondmag.com/blogs/the-schwartz-report/2013/03/big-data-fray.aspx

Tabular Model and default field set

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh479569.aspx

Measures: Tabular Data Model

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh230824.aspx

Power View with Multidimensional model

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/analysisservices/archive/2012/11/29/power-view-for-multidimensional-models-preview.aspx

Chapter 7: Self-service Data Alerts in SSRS 2012

Data Alerts details

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg492252.aspx

Setting up content types in SharePoint site

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb326289.aspx

SharePoint Integrated Reporting Services proxy site

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg492284.aspxhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg492284.aspx

About alert Rules and Alert Scheduling

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg492254.aspx

Chapter 8: Reporting Services and Programming

URL Access

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/1c3e680a-83ea-4979-8e79-fa2337ae12a3

Deprecated prefixes (DSU and DSP) in SQL Server Reporting Services 2012

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlreportingservices/thread/72f83019-9d2b-4ede-a526-e096a0cabc5b/

URL Access syntax for SharePoint Integrated Reporting Services server

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms153586.aspx

Report Viewer: CodePlex Site link

http://reportviewer.codeplex.com/

Stream callback and Report Viewer

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.reporting.winforms.createstreamcallback.aspx

Report Server Web Services Management Endpoints

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms155398.aspx

ReportExecution2005 end point

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms154052.aspx

SharePoint proxy endpoints

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms155398.aspx

SharePoint Integrated mode ReportService2006

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/reportservice2006.reportingservice2006

Windows Management Framework 3.0 (PowerShell) download

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34595

Power Shell quick reference (Cheat sheets)

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30002

PowerShell script for getting all Prerequisites to install SharePoint server 2010

http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/bcf3332d-f726-4ac7-b01a-eeda4b7ece8e

Making changes to Application Pool

http://hodentekhelp.blogspot.com/2013/04/how-do-you-make-changes-to-application.html

Power Shell – In depth link

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg492249.aspx

System.Management namespace details

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa719480.aspx

RSS disambiguation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(disambiguation))

Configuring Reporting Services URL

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb630447.aspx

Writing custom code for reports

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms156028.aspx

Chapter 9: Windows Azure SQL Reporting

Windows Azure SQL Reporting Services limitations

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/gg430132.aspx

Pricing for hosting reports on Windows Azure SQL Reporting

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ssdsgetstarted/thread/fecb288a-d1a8-4eda-b6f7-85f6dc1e4b4e

Main link for pricing

http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/details/

MSDN Forums

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/windowsazureplatform

Technet forums

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ssdsgetstarted/threads

Windows Azure Portal- link to old portal

http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/home/features/portals/

Windows Azure Service - known issues

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/hh667464

Comprehensive reference to SQL Azure with hands-on examples

Microsoft SQL Azure: Enterprise Application Development, ISBN:9781849680806, Packt Publishers, 2010

https://www.packtpub.com/microsoft-sql-azure-enterprise-application-development/book

Chapter 10: Applications Accessing Report Servers

Windows Presentation Foundation in Visual Studio

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb546194(v=vs.90).aspx

Web Browser Class (.NET Framework 4.5)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.controls.webbrowser.aspx

Browser WebBrowser.Navigate () method

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.webbrowser.navigate.aspx

View and Explore Native Mode Reports Using SharePoint Web Parts (SSRS)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms159772.aspx

SQL Server Integration Services

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms141026.aspx

Chapter 14: Web Service task to convert miles to kilometres

SQL Server Integration Services Using Visual Studio 2005, ISBN: 9781847193315, Packt Publishers, 2007

http://www.packtpub.com/sql-server-integration-services-visual-studio-2005/book

2nd Edition: SQL Server Reporting Services 2012

In the present day information-centric world we live in, the success of an enterprise depends enormously on how its information is generated, handled, and disseminated. With ample screenshots and over 65 hands-on exercises, this book will guide you effortlessly through creating cutting edge reports using SQL Server Reporting Services 2012, native and fully integrated with SharePoint Server 2010 including new features like Power View and Data Alerts.

"Learning SQL Server Reporting Services 2012" will get you started right from installation and then move on to configuration of SQL Server Reporting Services 2012. Start learning right from Chapter 1 and build your skill to create reports using the latest tools and deploy them to the latest servers, both Native and SharePoint. No guessing; you will learn all—Power View, Data Alerts, SQL Azure Reporting,the latest Reporting Services Gadgets, and more.

"Learning SQL Server Reporting Services 2012" is a definitive guide to a step-by-step, metered approach to get a jump start on the latest features in SQL Server Reporting Services.Reporting Services in Microsoft SQL Server 2012 is more tightly integrated not only with the Microsoft Business Stack but also with SharePoint, Windows Azure, and the Visual Studio suite of products, with many new features.

You will install and configure the toolset to work with SSRS 2012 integrated with SharePoint 2010. Using SQL Server Data Tools, you will author reports and deploy. You will learn about security to work with Report Manager and Central Administration in SharePoint. Using Report Builder, you will learn about authoring cutting edge reports. You will create Tabular Models and begin experiencing the thrill of creating Power View Reports.

Review this link for more details:
http://www.packtpub.com/learning-sql-server-reporting-services-2012/book

The first edition, 'Learning SQL Server Reporting Services 2008', ISBN: 9781847196187 was published in March 2009