I have a cube developed using SQL Server Analysis Services (2005). Its hooked up to an excel front end.
At the moment users have their own logon to the reporting server and access the reports that way. However, it would be nice of they could access the reports over the web.
Are there options for this? I could upgrade to 2008 if there was a compelling case.
The reporting server runs on IIS, so you'd need to treat this as any other IIS server. Common practice is to not expose a database server directly to the internet, so you would want to have a separate server hosting reporting services, which needs another SQL license - if you are not already configured that way.
I'm not sure if you're asking for a way to connect a local excel to the cube, or if you're just wanting to get into the reports interface.
I highly recommend using the aspxpivotgrid to expose your cube data within a web app. http://www.devexpress.com/Products/NET/Controls/ASP/Pivot_Grid/
note: not an employee of developerexpress
CellSetGrid is an Open Source ASP .Net (c#) control, which offers pivot table like functionality.
[This used to be available for download in this site:
www.SQLServerAnalysisServices.com
Now the site does not host this control anymore. So I have uploaded the source of the control - CellSetGrid here.
http://www.box.net/shared/6gi0n79q6t
1) You can build the source
2) Add this as a Control in Visual Studio toolbox.
3) Drag and Drop control to a web form
4) Set the connection string to the cube
5) This will show all the dimensions and measure groups so you can drag n drop what you want to get a pivot table like functionality
SSRS is running on IIS, meaning user can access the reports over web with proper access permission.
Also you can build a custom ASP.NET application with ReportViewer control which is using almost the same report file used in report server.
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I’m trying to find a way on using web based SSRS Report Builder outside of Active Directory environment or using RDP.
Currently I use the ananymous solution. Following is the detail.
In the Data Source Server Type selection, I‘m choosing “Analysis Service” (Anonymous Authentication is embed in the IIS Server)
The user access is set by default to Anonymous Authentication.
This is how I provide the connection detail in SQL Server Management Studio.
And the following is the connection string configuration in SSRS
Only by choosing the “current Windows User” (without filling any user authentication) the Datasource access in the report builder can be accessed.
By this solution, I have deep concern about the security of the data source, as the data source become accessible without any authentication.
Is there any other settings or solution to enable me design report in SSRS Report Builder from outside from the server in a more secure way?
You probably don't want to do this. Set up a VPN instead, then they can be accessed as though they are on the local lan but maintaining security.
I have am existing project that runs on windows, mac, ios and android. I'm looking for a way to make a windows phone version, but I can't figure out how to use SQL. My current code base is very large and I can't "switch" to using EF. How can I get access to databases in UWP?
If you want to connect a local database, for example the SQLite, there are implemented libraries could be used do this stuff:
A Developer's Guide to Windows 10: (10) SQLite Local Database
If you want to connect a server-based database, for example, the SQL Server database, unfortunately, there is not a built-in API like ADO.NET that could be used to connect the SQL Server directly. And for a workaround, you would have to utilize a middle layer for example, the WCF Serrvie:
How to access data from SQL Server database in Windows Store app, although this sample is written for store app, the used approach is the same for UWP application.
You'll not be able to connect directly to a Microsoft SQL Server database. Instead you'll need to make some type of Service layer that communicates with the database and your phone app would need to communicate with that. For more information on how to do that see the code same and the video that Microsoft has hosted here:
https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/How-to-access-data-from-5f2602ec
In my project I need to publish an Access database into Sharepoint. I need to add a web form into it. Is it possible to add a WebForm that can be shown in the Sharepoint site, using ODBC(Database from SQL server on local machine)?
I can connect to that database and edit records in it. But I can't make a form with that web icon on it. Is that even possible to publish something from Access to Sharepoint using local SQL server and make a form to show data from it?
I found something like that:
I totally missed the fact that this was a web app. Access web apps
work with SharePoint, no other data source. That's true for Access
2010. But in Access 2013, there is a hybrid solution possible: Access Client + Access Web + SQL Server. It's still very new and not
common yet, and unfortunately there isn't a migration path from Access
2010 web forms to Access 2013 web forms. You have to build the web app
from scratch. But it's a better platform than Access 2010 offered.
that means i should use access 2013 ?
I am no expert and can't test my ideas, but I read that if you publish an Access db with Access tables to SP, Access tables will be converted to a SQL Server table by SP. Perhaps you could then delete or rename the SP created table on SP's SQL Server and create a view with the same name which points to you table on the other server ?
Have a look at the SP site: https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/q/104005
I'm not sure if it's possible or not, but I need to create a web service to run report on the server and save it on a pdf file and the send the file name as result. I was wondering if it is possible to create such a service using SQL Server Business Intelligence.
Any thought or recommendation would be appreceiated
SQL Server reporting services will do this. It has a web interface and will save reports to various formats including pdf - it can also automatically email the results - all of this can be set up as a schedule or on demand.
I want to allow a user to provide their SQL login credentials, and display local SQL tables, stored procs, etc. in a listing. Is this possible? Note: I do not want to install some local, small SQL variant. I'm talking about the full version of SQL 2005+ that's already sitting on a developer's workstation.
Silverlight provides no mechanism for connecting to a SQL Database directly. You either need to provide a set of web services to interface with your data source or use ADO.NET Data services.
Connecting to a local SQL database using Silverlight alone isn't possible.
Something I almost missed is that you don't want to connect back to a database on the web server. You want information about a possible sql server instance on the user's (developer's) local machine. That isn't possible from within Silverlight alone.
I had thought you might be able to send the credentials on to the web server, have it dynamically generate a connection string, and then use the information_schema views to return lists of tables and views like any other data source. But that won't work.
However, in that scenario the web server is essentially acting as a proxy for your silverlight app. You might be able to build something else to act a proxy instead. Perhaps a small clickonce winforms app. That would install from a web page via hyperlink, so you could craft a link to install it on the page hosting your silverlight app.
With silverlight you cannot access the local machine/network resources. you will need to use wpf/xbap.