Crystal Reports and SQL Azure

I'm trying to print a report created by Crystal Reports, which the application is run on the client run, NOT run on Windows Azure, and I grant the client IP to allow it to connect to the SQL Azure to retrieve data for the report.
However, it throw an exception when the client application process the report file, I try to host the database locally and trace the sql it executed in profiler, then run each sql command on the SQL Azure to find out which line of sql command cause the
problem.
Finally, I find out that Crystal Report will call "sp_procedures_rowset" and "sp_columns_rowset", which are not existed on SQL Azure.
Any workarounds to solve this issue?

Hi Barry,
Yes, "sp_procedures_rowset" and "sp_columns_rowset" are not existed on SQL Azure. You
can check with below statement:
EXEC
sp_helptext
'sp_procedures_rowset'
I’m afraid you cannot use it in your report. Could you create your own Stored
Procedure?
Thanks,
Raymond
Raymond Li - MSFT

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