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SQL Reporting Services Pricing Update

Posted on February 1, 2013
We are very pleased to announce that we are lowering the price of Windows Azure SQL Reporting by up to 82%! The price change is effective today and is applicable to everyone currently using the service as well as new customers.
To ensure the service is cost effective for lower volume users, we are reducing the price for the base tier and including more granular increments
Effective today, the price for Windows Azure SQL Reporting will decrease from $0.88 per hour for every 200 reports to $0.16 per hour for every 30 reports. With this price decrease, a user who needs 30 reports per hour, for example, will pay $116.80 per month, down from our earlier price of $642.40, a reduction of 81.8%. In addition, the smaller report increment (from 200 to 30) will give customers better utilization and hence lower effective price points.
For more details, see our Pricing Details webpage. For additional Business Analytics capabilities, please visit: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/home/features/business-analytics/
As always, we offer a variety of options for developers to use Windows Azure for free or at significantly reduced prices including:
- Free 90 day trial for new users
- Offers for MSDN customers, Microsoft partner network members and startups that provide free usage every month up to $300 per month in value
- Monthly commitment plans that can save you up to 32% on everything you use on Windows Azure
Check out Windows Azure pricing and offers for more details or sign up to get started!
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Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2016, Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows Server 2022
- .NET Framework 4.7 or later
- SQL Server Database Engine (2012 SP4 or later), to store the report server database
- Download the Evaluation Edition of Microsoft SQL Server
- Install SQL Server Reporting Services (SQLServerReportingServices.exe)
- Configure your report server using Report Server Configuration Manager

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Power BI Report Server is an on-premises report server with a web portal in which you display and manage reports and KPIs. Along with it come the tools to create Power BI reports, paginated reports, mobile reports, and KPIs. Your users can access those reports in different ways: viewing them in a web browser or mobile device, or as an email in their in-box.

Comparing Power BI Report Server
Power BI Report Server is similar to both SQL Server Reporting Services and the Power BI online service, but in different ways. Like the Power BI service, Power BI Report Server hosts Power BI reports (.pbix), Excel files, and paginated reports (.rdl). Like Reporting Services, Power BI Report Server is on premises. Power BI Report Server features are a superset of Reporting Services: everything you can do in Reporting Services, you can do with Power BI Report Server, along with support for Power BI reports. See Comparing Power BI Report Server and the Power BI service for details.
Licensing Power BI Report Server
Power BI Report Server is available through two different licenses: Power BI Premium and SQL Server Enterprise Edition with Software Assurance. See Microsoft Volume Licensing for details. With a Power BI Premium license, you can create a hybrid deployment mixing cloud and on-premises.
If you publish Power BI reports to Power BI Report Server, you also need a Power BI Pro license. You don't need a Power BI Pro license to view and interact with Power BI reports on Power BI Report Server.
For Power BI Premium, Power BI Report Server is only included with P SKUs. It is not included with EM SKUs.
The entry point for Power BI Report Server is a secure web portal you can view in any modern browser. Here, you access all your reports and KPIs. The content on the web portal is organized in a traditional folder hierarchy. In your folders, content is grouped by type: Power BI reports, mobile reports, paginated reports, KPIs, and Excel workbooks. Shared datasets and shared data sources are in their own folders, to use as building blocks for your reports. You tag favorites to view them in a single folder. And you create KPIs right in the web portal.

Depending on your permissions, you can manage the content in the web portal. You can schedule report processing, access reports on demand, and subscribe to published reports. You can also apply your own custom branding to your web portal.
More about the Power BI Report Server web portal .

Power BI reports
You create Power BI reports (.pbix) with the version of Power BI Desktop optimized for the report server. Then you publish them and view them in the web portal in your own environment.

A Power BI report is a multi-perspective view into a data model, with visualizations that represent different findings and insights from that data model. A report can have a single visualization or pages full of visualizations. Depending on your role, you may read and explore reports, or you may create them for others.
Read about installing Microsoft Power BI Desktop .
Paginated reports
Paginated reports (.rdl) are document-style reports with visualizations, in which tables expand horizontally and vertically to display all their data, continuing from page to page as needed. They're great for generating fixed-layout, pixel-perfect documents optimized for printing, such as PDF and Word files.

You can create paginated reports using Microsoft Report Builder or Report Designer in SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) .
Reporting Services mobile reports (deprecated)
SQL Server mobile reports are deprecated starting in 2019.
Mobile reports connect to on-premises data and have a responsive layout that adapts to different devices and the different ways you hold them. You create them with SQL Server Mobile Report Publisher.
Report Server programming features
Take advantage of Power BI Report Server programming features to extend and customize your reports, with APIs to integrate or extend data and report processing in custom applications.
More Report Server developer documentation .
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We are very pleased to announce that we are lowering the price of Windows Azure SQL Reporting by up to 82%! The price change is effective
Review Microsoft SQL Server licensing and pricing to find the perfect ... Allows SQL Server Enterprise Edition customers to run Power BI Report Server.
Should I have additional licensed software to use it if i have access to SQL Server Reporting Service?? Here is information from license
Power BI Report Server. SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) provides a set of on-premises tools and services that create, deploy
You can connect to Power BI datasets using either Microsoft Report Builder or SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT). Then you can publish those reports
Learn about the tools for development, configuration, administration, and report viewing that are contained in SQL Server Reporting
SQL Server Reporting Services is a server-based reporting platform that provides comprehensive reporting functionality.
In this article. Related links; SQL Server Reporting Services; Edition requirements for the report server database; Business intelligence
Get an overview of Power BI Report Server to understand how it fits in with SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) and the rest of Power BI.
I've seen that it comes included with the PBI Premium service. I've also read where if you have SQL Server Enterprise, there is no cost for the Report Server.