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Microsoft SQL Azure Enterprise Application Development

You're reading from   Microsoft SQL Azure Enterprise Application Development Moving business applications and data to the cloud can be a smooth operation when you use this practical guide. Learn to make the most of SQL Azure and acquire the knowledge to build enterprise-ready applications.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849680806
Length 420 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jayaram Krishnaswamy Jayaram Krishnaswamy
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Microsoft SQL Azure: Enterprise Application Development
Credits
About the Author
1. Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
2. Preface
1. Cloud Computing and Microsoft Azure Services Platform FREE CHAPTER 2. SQL Azure Services 3. Working with SQL Azure Databases from Visual Studio 2008 4. SQL Azure Tools 5. Populating SQL Azure Databases 6. SSIS and SSRS Applications Using SQL Azure 7. Working with Windows Azure Hosting 8. Database Applications on Windows Azure Platform Accessing SQL Server Databases 9. Synchronizing SQL Azure 10. Recent Developments

Working with SQL Azure from SQL Server Management Studio


When you are connected to the SQL Azure Server from SSMS, you can work with the server objects as you would with local servers except that SQL Azure supports (presently) only a subset of the features supported by SQL Server 2008 R2 (November CTP). We will now review a number of features that are supported fully or partially.

Creating queries

Querying databases is one of the important tasks that you would do on a regular basis and the process of querying SQL Azure is no different from querying other databases except for some changes in the commands, as follows:

  1. 1. Click on Connect | Database Engine... toolbar item in SSMS to open the Connect to Server dialog.

  2. 2. Enter the credentials as before and click the Connect button.

  3. 3. This opens up the Object Explorer displaying the SQL Azure Server objects. As we saw earlier, there are two databases, master and Bluesky.

  4. 4. Click the New Query toolbar item, as shown in the following screenshot...

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