Connect to SQL Azure containing backend for MS Access Web App

Question

Ok not sure what to enter in the subject line so apologies if it stands unclear.

I created a simple web app using MS Access 2013. It simply had one table with sample dat

Answer 1

You are connecting to an Azure DB

There seems to be a major disconnect here. Your DB is on the server under window.net. *Have you logged on to the SQL Azure Portal like the instructions says? *

How can you set up an Azure DB?

Watch this video: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/manage/services/sql-databases/

How to Connect using SSMS

This page: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/manage/services/sql-databases/how-to-manage-a-sqldb/ tells you exactly what you need to do (which is exactly what your error message is telling you)

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Step 2: Connect to SQL Database

Connecting to SQL Database requires that you know the server name on Windows Azure. You might need to sign in to the portal to get this information.

Sign in to the Windows Azure Management Portal.

In the left pane, click on SQL Databases.

On the SQL Databases home page, click SERVERS at the top of the page to list all of the servers associated with your subscription. Find the name of the server to which you want to connect and copy it to the clipboard.

Next, configure your SQL Database firewall to allow connections from your local machine. You do this by adding your local machines IP address to the firewall exception list.

On SQL Databases home page, click SERVERS and then click the server to which you want to connect.

Click Configure at the top of the page.

Copy the IP address in CURRENT CLIENT IP ADDRESS.

In the Configure page, Allowed IP Addresses includes three boxes where you can specify a rule name and a range of IP addresses as starting and ending values. For a rule name, you might enter the name of your computer. For the start and end range, paste in the IP address of your computer into both boxes, and then click the checkbox that appears.

The rule name must be unique. If this is your development computer, you can enter the IP address in both the IP range start box and the IP range end box. Otherwise, you might need to enter a broader range of IP addresses to accommodate connections from additional computers in your organization.

Click SAVE at the bottom of the page.

Note: There can be up as much as a five-minute delay for changes to the firewall settings to take effect.

You are now ready to connect to SQL Database using Management Studio.

On the taskbar, click Start, point to All Programs, point to Microsoft SQL Server 2012, and then click SQL Server Management Studio.

In Connect to Server, specify the fully-qualified server name as serverName.database.windows.net. On Windows Azure, the server name is an autogenerated string composed of alphanumeric characters.

Select SQL Server Authentication.

In the Login box, enter the SQL Server administrator login that you specified in the portal when creating your server in the format login@yourServerName.

In the Password box, enter the password that you specified in the portal when creating your server.

Click Connect to establish the connection.

On Windows Azure, each SQL Database logical server is an abstraction that defines a grouping of databases. The physical location of each database might be on any computer in the data center.

In previous versions, you had to connect directly to master when setting up the connection in Management Studio. This step is no longer necessary. Connections will now succeed based on the server name, authentication type, and administrator credentials.

Many of the SSMS wizards you can use for tasks like creating and modifying logins and databases on a SQL Server database are not available for SQL databases on Windows Azure, so you'll need to utilize Transact-SQL statements to accomplish these tasks. The steps below provide examples of these statements. For more information about using Transact-SQL with SQL Database, including details about which commands are supported, see Transact-SQL Reference (SQL Database).