August 2012
Intermediate to advanced
1416 pages
33h 39m
English
book
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Bible
by Adam Jorgensen, Jorge Segarra, Patrick LeBlanc, Jose Chinchilla, Aaron Nelson
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Managing Windows Azure SQL Database
One of the great benefits of SQL Database, on top of its high availability, scalability, and familiar development model, is that SQL Database provides the great, same familiar development model that you know and love with SQL Server. This section looks at a couple of tools that help with the management of SQL Database.
SQL Server Management Studio
The first tool is the familiar SQL Server Management Studio. SQL Server Management Studio from SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2, and SQL Server 2012 can be used to access, configure, manage, and administer your SQL Database instances.
The key to using SQL Server Management Studio is supplying the proper login and server information. The server name is in the following format:
server.database.windows.net
The server name is a fully qualified name that you use every time you connect to SQL Database, including connection strings. SQL Database supports only SQL Authentication, so your username is in the following format:
username@server
When logged in, SQL Server Management Studio provides the same great tool for working with your SQL Database environment that you are used to when working with SQL Server, as shown in Figure 31.1. In the Object Explorer windows, several of the nodes you typically use when working with SQL Server are not present when working with SQL Database, such as the Server Objects node and the Replication Node.
Figure 31.1 SQL Server Management Studio Connected to SQL Database. ...
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