No OFFSET command in SQL Azure?

Note: I am a noob at working with databases, as will likely be clear.
I just upgraded my website to use AzureWebsite's built-in SQL database, upgrading from the SQLCE (.sdf) files that came with the default WebMatrix install. As part of this process, my local database now appears to be a SQLExpress Server (SQL Server
10.50.4000 is what it says in the Server Management Studio).
My OFFSET commands no longer seem to work. It works when I upload the code to Azurewebsites, but locally, the following command:
Line 134: var sqlGetImage = "SELECT * FROM CandidateImage WHERE CandidateID= @0 ORDER BY CandidateID OFFSET BY @1 ROWS";
Line 135: var qImg = gdb.QuerySingle(sqlGetImage,candidate,rndImage);
Returns the following result:
Exception Details: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Incorrect syntax near 'OFFSET'.
I kind of need OFFSET to do what I want to do in a non-terrible way (I want to choose a random candidate out of the possible SELECT results). My question:
1) Is there a way to do what I want to do that works on both platforms? Or alternatively
2) Do I have my development environment set up wrong? It's hard to imagine most people work in a way where this is possible.

Hi Damion Schubert,
According to your description, we need to verify if you want to use offset and fetch to be added after the ORDER BY clause in SQL Azure database and SQL Server database. If yes, in Windows SQL Azure
database, it support ORDER BY with OFFSET and FETCH. However, the form of OFFSET and FETCH is a new T-SQL features in SQL Server2012. Since your local database is SQL Server Express 2008R2, when you use offset function, it will occur error.
Usually, with earlier version of SQL Server , to accomplish paging , we are using the ROW_NUMBER. Since SQL Server 2012 we can use the keywords OFFSET and FETCH where OFFSET is the number of row to skip and FETCH the number of row to take. For more information,
you can review the following article.
http://blog.clicdata.com/2013/05/03/paging-with-sql-server-2012-and-sql-azure/
http://dbadiaries.com/new-t-sql-features-in-sql-server-2012-offset-and-fetch
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"The report definition was saved, but one or more errors occurred while setting the report properties"
Reports with standard sql datasources work fine.
I have also tried creating the report using Visual Studio 2013 and get a similar error message.
I have tried this using SQL 2012 and SQL 2014 and get the same error.
Does anybody know how I can create a report with Microsoft SQL Azure datasource type?

Hi jamesla,
Based on my research, the issue can be caused by a deleted shared data source still exist under the Data Sources list in Report Builder. For more details about this scenario, we can refer to the following thread:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/7170dbee-048c-4298-89ba-df4d42924c8e/the-report-definition-was-saved-but-one-or-more-errors-occurred-while-setting-report-properties?forum=sqlreportingservices
Since the error message without detail information, we can try to render the report to see the detail error message. Besides, we can try to check it in the log file. The SQL Reporting Services log files are found on the reporting services point server, in
the folder %programfiles%\Microsoft SQL Server\<SQL Server Instance>\Reporting Services\LogFiles.
For more information about how to use Microsoft SQL azure as the data source of a report, please see:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-IN/library/ff519560.aspx
http://programming4.us/database/2158.aspx
Thanks,
Katherine Xiong
Katherine Xiong
TechNet Community Support

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