I spun up an Azure SQL Database and connected to it using SSMS in hopes of following this tutorial. When I look in Object Explorer, the only two folders I see are "Databases" and "Security"; there is no "Server Objects", and for the life of me, I cannot figure out why not.
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Is it an Azure SQL Database thing? Thank you in advance for any help you can provide!
Azure SQL Database only allows database access. Server Objects is something you need access to the entire instance/server. If you want to use Azure, you'll need to spin up a VM and install SQL Server on there in order to follow this tutorial.
From the pictures in the tutorial it looks like they have SQL Server Express running on their local machine. If you can, try that route as it'll probably be cheaper and less hassle.
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I was working with Visual Studion 2015 and I was using localdb feature to do data access and manipulations. Can I access remote database, which is on azure, in the same way or other without installing ssms?
As marked duplicate, I will make an effort to make this question unique.
I am not asking how to connect remote db using localdb, I was telling I used localdb to connect local databse.
The main question is "Can I access remote database, which is on azure, in the same way or other without installing ssms?"
Seems like #Jude's comment answered it, worth a try.
He is not on about accessing to LocalDB. He is on about the way to access to DB. Yes you can. SQL Server Object Explorer under View menu is what you need. Straight forward process. Basically, you don't need SSMS
-- Credit (Jude - commentor on this post).
I have a database stored on SQL Server with my web site at a regular windows hosting solution. I need to migrate to Azure.
The only backup mean I have is to use SQL Server Management Studio and do a Task -> Generate scripts that saves schema and data in a sql file. I did it and I got a 260Mb file.
My question is about importing that to Azure. Can I do it in Mngt Studio too? How?
Thanks
If you have exported it all to scripts, yes, you can run them against your SQL Database. However, before you do that I'd suggest looking at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/sql-database-cloud-migrate/. It might shed some light on other options that will include verifying compatibility. The BacPac method might be better than the scripts.
To answer the specific question of using SSMS with Azure SQL DB, this article https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/sql-database-manage-azure-ssms/ shows how to make the connection.
I'm creating a MVC 5 web application with EF 6 Code first. Now it creates a database in the App_Data folder. I want to publish the website to an Azure website. Because this is only the test version of the website, I don't want to pay for it. It will only visited a couple of times a month until it is in production.
Is it possible to run the database something like an access database file? I thought that some kind of functionality existed. I thought the name was SQL Server Compact Edition? But how does it works?
I also thought that you could create a free 20MB sql server database. See this link of the pricing page. Search for 20 in your browser.
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/web-sites/
I don't see that option.
Any ideas would be welcome!
Yes, you just have to right click and include in your project.
I write an article for this in Chinese, and this is the English version I found.
Solution for free SQL Server in Azure:
Install two nuget: EntityFrame.SqlServerCompact & Microsoft SQL Server Compact Edition
Put SQL database file (.sdf/.mdf) in APP_Data folder
Put connection string like this to use it:
<add name ="DefaultConnection" connectionString ="Data Source=|DataDirectory|CompactDB.sdf" providerName ="System.Data.SqlServerCe.4.0" />
Publish full project include above SQL database file to AzureWebsites.
It work well and is totally free.
I found the 20Mb free SQL Server option. I still had a website in my subscription that was stopped. When I deleted that, no website or database was there in my subscription anymore. I then created a new website via the custom website option in the azure portal. I then could select (in the wizard) a free 20 MB SQL Server database.
I uploaded my MVC application and the Code First created my database automatically. I don't know why the option wasn't showing up before but now it works.
There's no free version of the SQL Database service. What you may have read is that there's a 1 year free 20MB MySQL database available.
When you're saying that a database it created in the App_Data folder, this uses SQL Server Compact (see Maresh's links) and that is free.
If you want to connect on premise database you need to setup azure virtual network. See the codeproject article
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/261063/Azure-Virtual-Network-Connecting-Local-Database
there is some alternative way using azure service bus.
http://www.bradygaster.com/post/windowsazurewebsites-onprem-servicebus
Another option would be sql server compact edition.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/ff687142.aspx
see below link also
Support for SQL Server Compact 4.0 on Azure
I have succeeded in creating a basic tables running on the azure emulator in Visual Studio 2012 and I have also managed to create a couple of SQL Server databases that work with applications on a single computer. I was wondering how you would combine these to create a SQL Server database running on my local azure emulator ,that allows other computers and mobile devices to connect to it.
I have done a bit of research on this and there are quite a few topics about it, but it seems like you have to create the database on the Azure online portal and then connect to it, but I was hoping to skip this since I want to avoid connecting to any online resources.
If someone could just please point me in the right direction , because I'm still pretty unsure about using azure and all it's features. It would be great if I could create a SQL Server database on visual studio and then just specify a connection string to it through azure. (Must connect through Azure)
"For local testing, you can use a local SQL Server (full, express or even CE) within your app - just use local connection string's in place of the SQL Azure ones in your .cscfg or .config files - then the local compute instance will connect just like any other local process would." Quoted from How do I test locally against SQL Azure?
I have read that question post, but the answer was a bit too vague for rooky programming knowledge.
I think it might be able to help me if someone could also maybe elaborate on it.
Thanks in advance !
there is no emulator for Azure SQL Database.
As the post you referenced pointed out, you use a local SQL instance (CE, server, express, localdb) to simulate your database operations.
when you're ready to move to Azure SQL Database, you just change your connection string to point to your Azure SQL Database instead of your local database.
please take note though that Azure SQL Database and your typical SQL installation have feature differences, so that into account. you may be able to run some T/SQL on your local instance that is not supported in Azure SQL
I have a database created using the code-first approach against SQL Server Express. I'm trying to view the database in Management Studio, but cannot find the database. VS Database Explorer also cannot seem to find it.
I've searched about but cannot find any reference to what I'm after. Is it possible to browse a database running in the dev fabric?
Usually if we create a new database in Visual Studio, it will give us a database file, but it won’t register the database in SQL Server Management Studio. So please manually attach the database file to SQL Server Management Studio. First please find the database file, normally it is under the AppData folder of our project. Then I would like to suggest you to check http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190209.aspx for instructions on how to attach the database.
Best Regards,
Ming Xu.
Take a look at Scott Gu's blog post on EF Code First and DB Generation: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/07/16/code-first-development-with-entity-framework-4.aspx
The Azure Dev Fabric has nothing to do with the DB layer, the connection string handles all this for you i.e. when you deploy to SQL Azure your DB will go there, the only thing that needs changed is the connection string...from localhost (Dev Machine) to SQL Azure connectionn string
HTH