Management Portal for SQL Database
The Management Portal for SQL Database is a lightweight and easy-to-use database management tool. It allows you to conveniently manage your SQL Databases and to quickly develop, deploy, and manage your data-driven applications in the cloud.
The Management Portal for SQL Database is part of the Windows Azure Platform Management Portal experience. The Management Portal for SQL Database supports database development tasks, schema modification, Transact-SQL queries, and extract/deploy/upgrade operations with data-tier applications.
To work with databases in the Windows Azure Platform Management Portal, you must have a Windows Azure subscription and a SQL Database Server. For more information about how to create a Windows Azure subscription and a SQL Database server, see the Windows Azure Platform Management Portal. For more information about the Windows Azure platform, see Windows Azure Platform. For more information about getting started with SQL Database, see the SQL Database Developer Portal.
In This Section
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Provides steps to get started with the service, launch the management portal, and connect to a database. |
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Documents procedural steps for working with tables, views, stored procedures, and Transact-SQL queries in the Database Design work space. |
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Database Administration (Management Portal for SQL Database) |
Documents procedural steps for creating and dropping databases, and working with data-tier applications in the Database Administration work space. |
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Database Sharding with Windows Azure SQL Database (Management Portal for SQL Database) |
Links to TechNet documentation about database sharding with SQL Database. |
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Describes known issues in this release. |
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A blog for the SQL SQL Database community. |
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