Cannot get Linked Servers to work in Sql Azure

Question

We are using a trial version of Azure. We are trying to perform cross server queries from our SQL 2012 in-house.

We seem to have our local 2012 linked with Azure. When I

Answer 1

This works for me:

CREATE MASTER KEY ENCRYPTION BY PASSWORD = 'mypassword';

CREATE DATABASE SCOPED CREDENTIAL MySecurity 
WITH IDENTITY = 'mylogin',
SECRET = 'mypassword';

CREATE EXTERNAL DATA SOURCE MyDbAccess
WITH (
    TYPE=RDBMS,
    LOCATION='server name',
    DATABASE_NAME='db_name',
    CREDENTIAL= MySecurity);

CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE MyExtTable (
    [Id] [int]  NOT NULL,
    [Name] [varchar(20)] NULL)
WITH
(DATA_SOURCE = MyDbAccess);

After that you can just use it:

SELECT * FROM MyExtTable