I have an operational SQL VM in Azure. How do I provision Azure to see it under SQL Databases and provide it as an option when creating something like Mobile Services?
That is not possible. The SQL Database feature is a service and, while it does run a highly compatible SQL Server environment, it is not the same as the SQL Server you would install on premises, or on a hosted virtual machine. There is not a way to "register" an existing SQL Server database, either in or outside of Azure, as a SQL Database instance.
If you want to have the Mobile Services system pointing to a SQL Server instance that is NOT a SQL Database I do not believe that is possible either. You can post a suggestion to the http://www.mygreatwindowsazureidea.com/forums/34192-general-feedback- site. The product group does monitor this and take it into account during product backlog sessions.
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I installed SSRS into an Azure VM (IaaS). In the ssrs configuration manager, I tried the report server databases point to an Azure SQL Managed Instance database, but the connection didn't work. I would like to know if SSRS in an Azure VM support Report Server Databases as Azure SQL Database and/or Azure SQL MAnaged Instance. If it is supported, can you please share any documentation about that?
Thanks!
To my knowledge Report Server databases cannot be hosted on Azure SQL Database as I mentioned on this MSDN forum thread.
As long as I know, the Report Server database can be hosted on a Managed Instance and is mentioned by a Microsoft Data Platform MVP on this article. You won't find any official documentation on how to do this. This scenario makes little sense to me, because you will be paying money for a SQL VM and a Managed Instance. You will be paying SQL licenses for both. You save money if you have SSRS and its databases on the VM,
Somehow I cannot find it anywhere on the internet. Currently we are running an on premise version of SQL Server. We are looking for the possibility to migrate to the azure cloud for our databases.
However one of our databases heavly runs query using an openedge odbc linked server solution to query an progress database.
I cannot find if it is possible to create a linked server in the azure cloud to allow connections to that progress database.
Does anyone knows if it is possible?
No, Azure SQL Database Managed Instance only support SQL Server/SQL Database linked Servers, Single Database and Elastic pool doesn't support linked servers.
You may check the features that supported by Azure SQL Database here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-database/sql-database-features
We are trying to evaluate possibility of migrating our in-house SQL DB server to Azure SQL as a PaaS.
Our legacy windows application which is written in VB6 and now running on VB.NET Framework 4.5
Clarifications I need if I migrate only DB server to Azure:
We use both trusted / credential based SQL connection from our desktop application to connect to SQL DB. If we migrate to Azure SQL, will it support trusted connection which should authenticate current organizations NT user?
We have lot of cross DB queries, do we need to face any challenge to use the queries as it is?
Run time we take a DB backup / restore for some business cases. Does this work?
Are there any restrictions on number of admin users on Azure DB?
Probably yes if you sync your local AD with an AAD (See: Use Azure Active Directory Authentication for authentication with SQL Database, Managed Instance, or SQL Data Warehouse)
Azure SQL Database (PaaS) doesn't support cross DB queries by default - you have to setup / use Elastic Query for that.
Yes, you can take a DB backup at runtime and also restore it. There is also a point-in-time restore feature available. See: Learn about automatic SQL Database backups.
I think you can only specify one server administrator (at least within the portal) but I doubt you will reach any limit on db users.
Instead of using the single database SQL Server PaaS service you should also consider using Managed Instance (preview)
You will have to extend your active directory to Azure active directory to keep using trusted connections. You will learn how to do it on this documentation and this one.
On Azure SQL Database you have elastic queries that allow you to run cross database queries. Learn how to create elastic queries here.
You can create bacpacs (export your databases) to Azure Storage or to on-premises location very easy.
You can configure one Server Admin or one Azure Active Directory Admin (it can be a group) for your Azure SQL Server. However, at the database level you can add many database users to the dbmanager role. You can have more information about this topic here.
I've gotta admit that I'm a Microsoft .NET developer, and I'm not an expert in SQL Server.
I have developed a Windows app, with data stored in my local SQL Server (Express version). I recently purchase a shared hosting service, including a SQL Server. I thought about backing up my local data to remote server: about 5-6 tables from my local SQL Server to remote server, and 1-2 tables from remote to local
What's the best way to do this? DB size is limited to about 5-10MB. The structure of 2 DBs are different, synced tables have same structures. Is there an automatic script I can run from SQL Server Express to do this task every 15 minutes or so?
For initial publishing I’d just go with restoring a backup in the hosting environment. For further synchronization you can try some of the 3rd party tools such as ApexSQL Data Diff or SQL Data Compare or basically any other tool in this category…
I need to transfer a database from a SQL Server instance test server to a production environment that is clustered. But SQL Server doesn't allow you to use backup/restore to do it from single instance to cluster. I'm talking about a Microsoft CRM complex database here.
Your help is greatly appreciated.
Have a look at the Microsoft SQL Server Database Publishing Wizard:
SQL Server Database Publishing Wizard
enables the deployment of SQL Server
databases into a hosted environment on
either a SQL Server 2000 or 2005
server. It generates a single SQL
script file which can be used to
recreate a database (both schema and
data) in a shared hosting environment
where the only connectivity to a
server is through a web-based control
panel with a script execution window.
If supported by the hosting service
provider, the Database Publishing
Wizard can also directly upload
databases to servers located at the
shared hosting provider.
Optionally, SQL Server Database
Publishing Wizard can integrate
directly into Visual Studio 2005
and/or Visual Web Developer 2005
allowing easy publishing of databases
from within the development
environment.
You don't have to use the server-side piece; the client-side 'create a script' piece is generally enough.