Just 4 years before, it was not possible to have end to end Business
Intelligence (BI) solution on SQL Azure. Please read my blog here which was
actually written 4 years back.
Now things have been changed dramatically. If you go through my blog than under
conclusion at last section I have mentioned that “As per current scenario Microsoft Cloud
Platform seems to be positioned as one of the leading platforms for DW/BI because
it demonstrates great potential in early stage. We expect a great future of SQL
Azure for DW/BI if Microsoft promises to enhance it continuously to overcome
its limitation.
Microsoft shows an awesome approach to address my conclusive remark and
now we can truly do BI with some constraints on SQL Azure by using Microsoft
Azure Virtual Machine gallery includes images that contain SQL Server
installations. To have more details on the same read here.
3 cheers to Microsoft and Azure!
