Learning Microsoft Azure Storage

Adding a database to the elastic database pool

Once you get your elastic database pool up and running, you can add databases to it, and to do so, you need to follow these steps:

1. Navigate to the SQL servers blade and click on the SQL Server created earlier to be able to add new databases to it, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 5.8: The Azure SQL Server that hosts the elastic databases pool

2. There are two ways to add databases to the pool according to the preceding screenshot:
   • New database: In this case, you will go through the same steps we did earlier
   • Import database: In this case, you will import an existing database to be ...