Connect to a SQL Azure Database Using SSMS or SQLCMD

As at launch in January 2010 SSMS can connect to SQL Azure, but the object browser does not work. Ensure that you have setup the SQL Azure firewall to allow your IP to connect to SQL Azure. Start up SSMS and when the connection dialog appears hit Cancel, this is due to a connection error [...]

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SQL Azure Announcements at PDC 2010

Microsoft saves its big announcements for Azure till its PDC conference, so what did we get at PDC 2010? The biggie was SQL Azure Reporting, this was a major announcement and a much requested feature for SQL Azure. In the demonstrations the compatibility with the SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services looked very good – [...]

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