Azure Database for MySQL server is still in preview, though we can created database instance on it.
I wonder do we have any API to retrieve the databases that we created on Azure Database for MySQL server? API for metrics of those databases?
Same questions for Azure Database for PostgreSQL server. Thanks!
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We have just released the REST API spec today. You can find it here - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/mysql/
Here's the REST API reference to list all the databases under a server: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/mysql/databases#Databases_ListByServer
well, they obviously exist, but they are not publicly available yet. I don't see anything reasonable on the REST API reference page.
You may figure this out using the Azure portal + fiddler combo ;)
What do you mean retrieve the databases? You can connect to them in Visual Studio with your SQL server object explorer and entering the server name Azure gave you as the server. I don't know if I am understanding your question right? You can connect to the database just like any other SQL database using a SqlConnection.
EDIT:
I looked into it a little more:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-database/sql-database-connect-query-dotnet-visual-studio
Essentially what I was saying. Provided you have successfully connected your SQL db to Azure you just access it like any other database. For PostgresSql, look into using NpgsqlConnection instead of SqlConnection. They have very similar functionality.
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I'm trying to find a way from within Azure SQL to either 1) enumerate members of an Azure Active Directory security group or 2) check if a user login is a member of an SG. I've found various articles about doing it from a domain joined standalone SQL installation but not from Azure SQL. Most of the samples for the standalone installation use system sprocs like xp_cmdshell which don't exist in Azure SQL. I know I can create an Azure Function or Logic App to sync users to a table but I'd like to avoid using an external process to do this if possible.
#Kalyan Chanumolu-MSFT's comment should be very helpful to you. This scenario is not supported today.
You can try to use his suggestion.
You will have to talk to Microsoft Graph API from an intermediate like an Azure function to relay the data to Azure SQL Database.
You also can raise a support ticket to confirm it and also can put forward your suggestions in the feedback.
tried creating a federation from using sql server management studio but got this weird error after executing the CREATE FEDERATION command.
here is the query and the error result after executing it.
I just hope someone has ran into this before.
Happy Coding..
Federations are no longer supported in Azure SQL Database. Depending on your application, consider putting each Federation member into its own dedicated database in an Elastic Pool, or sharding your data across a few databases. The different alternative application patterns with links to the feature documentation are discussed in more detail here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/sql-database-design-patterns-multi-tenancy-saas-applications/.
Hope this helps.
Thanks,
Torsten
I'm currently creating an SQL database that will eventually be accessed by web applications, both mobile and desktop platforms.
Setting up the SQL database is easy.
What I'm currently having trouble with is how I'm going to allow clients to access to information in the database without having direct access to the database, for security purposes.
For example, let's say I have a list of employees, and I'm creating employee profiles for a mobile application. I would like for the mobile application to be able to use a function such as get(employee_name), which will call the database and retrieve the information about the employee in the form of a JSON.
How would I go about doing this?
To see a very nice solution on using JSON on sql server tables please look at Phil Factors article Consuming JSON Strings in SQL Server at:
https://www.simple-talk.com/sql/t-sql-programming/consuming-json-strings-in-sql-server/
I have a prototype paas (platform as a service). The solution currently saves data for all customers in a single sql instance. For now this is fine, but I worry about slowdowns when the db grows. I reason I could keep the service running fast if each customer had their own database.
I was looking on the Azure portal and I found nothing. I can easily create a new database manually - but - I don't want that, I want to keep everything automated. Is there a way I can setup a sql server 'group' ?
While I am at it, SQL is not a requirement. My data is noSQL ready. Is this something I could do with monogoDB running on a worker role ? me.
You should look at the Azure DocumentDb preview, which is a NoSQL database provided as a managed service.
There is a Azure SQL Managment Nuget
http://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Management.Sql
http://www.bradygaster.com/post/managing-windows-azure-sql-databases-using-the-management-libraries-for-net
Right now, our application only has one Web Site instance along with SQL Database deployed at Azure US datacenter. We are looking for deploying more Web Site instance at other datacenter such as APAC and Europe. There still be a local SQL Database for each of those web site instance. We would like end user could fail over to another instance if his registered instance is not available, such as if US web site instance is down, we could fail over user to Europe instance. With this, we would need to synchronize local SQL Database at all data centers, US, Europe and APAC.
So we are looking for what's best approach to implement the database synchronization here for Azure SQL Database. Here are what we found at this point:
Azure Data Sync, it looks like that it is the perfect choice since it is available right away at Azure Management Portal and it would be up and running with some simple configuration. However there seems couple catches. The feature has been on preview about 2 years now (see this link with the following quote from comment):
SQL Data Sync has been in preview for over 2 years and the last update was December 2012. Has this been abandoned? Is this a technology we should encourage our clients to use? There absolutely needs to be an ability to synchronize data between a local SQL DB and Azure but Microsoft seems to have dropped this and I'm leery of putting a client on this only to find that the plug has been pulled. You owe it to your users to give us some information
I also saw the post Azure data sync not syncing all databases at SO, it seems that this feature is a second class feature at Azure and MS doesn't really pay sufficient attention to it. So I am worried how good it is.
Microsoft Sync Framework, it seems a more generic sync framework and more suitable for client and server sync instead of sync among server database. Plus it is not simple as above SQL Data Sync which is available just by configuration at Azure.
Any other suggestions on sql database sync at Azure? It would be really appreciated if you could share your experience here.
Thanks very much in advance for your insight.
Update:
Azure Data Sync is built upon using Microsoft Sync Framework: see link, the quote:
Microsoft SQL Data Sync is a cloud-based data synchronization service built on the Microsoft Sync Framework technologies.
Since no one is answering this question and I am going to do it myself. Based on some latest information, the Azure Data Sync is buggy and can not be used for production at this point. I guess that's the reason why it never moves out of preview even after around 2 years. There is no other good approach for handling Azure SQL Database sync at this point unless you want to build something yourself.
you can use RedGate Data Compare to sync your Azuresql DB with your Local DB