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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

Connecting to SQL Azure from SQL Server Management Studio


The SQL Azure Portal can manage servers, databases, and firewall settings as seen earlier. However, if you want to work with the databases and/or create objects you need an external utility. SQL Server Management Studio R2 provides the ability to work with databases by providing T-SQL support. There are other tools to connect to SQL Azure. SQL Azure supports only a limited set of features that SQL Server 2008 is capable of as described earlier in this chapter and all these features can be used in SSMS once you are connected to SQL Azure Server.

Connecting to SQL Azure from SSMS

Connecting to SQL Azure from SSMS is like connecting to any of the local SQL servers. To do this, you will need to perform the following steps:

  1. 1. Open the SSMS (the version used here is the one that came with SQL Server 2008 R2 November CTP installation) from its shortcut in Start in the Windows 7 desktop.

  2. 2. The Connect to Server dialog box will pop up wherein...

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