What is Azure SQL database How to connect to Azure SQL database

Question

Is Azure SQL database same as any other relational database? How do I connect to Azure SQL Database?

Answer 1

Azure SQL Database is a general-purpose relational database, provided as a managed service. 

With it, you can create a highly available and high-performance data storage layer for the applications and solutions in Azure. 

SQL Database can be the right choice for a variety of modern cloud applications because it enables you to process both relational data and non-relational structures, such as graphs, JSON, spatial, and XML.

There are various ways of connecting to your Azure SQL Database, some of them are:

• SQL Server Management Studio

• Azure Data Studio

• Azure portal

• Visual Studio Code

• .NET with Visual Studio etc,

For more info on how to connect to a SQL database, refer to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-database/sql-database-connect-query