Learn how to use the Azure Portal to create a cloud-based SQL database with just a few mouse clicks.

An Azure subscription An administrative account that has permissions to create a SQL database The AzureRm PowerShell modules from the PowerShell Gallery (Install-Module -Name AzureRm) A resource group ...

However, it's somewhat limited in that it can only operate on Azure SQL Database. Elastic Jobs also requires you to create an Azure SQL Database to manage the jobs.

We could invoke a T-SQL query using the CREATE DATABASE term, we could write some code to use the [Create () method with SMO] or, if we're putting this SQL server in Azure, we could even use the ...

By using a single tool like PowerShell, you can access your data wherever it is stored. It does not matter if it is in the cloud in an Azure SQL database or in an on-premises MS-SQL server, MySQL or ...

As mentioned earlier, you can still use SQL Agent on Azure VMs and, with some limitations, on Azure SQL Managed Instances. With all of those options competing for your attention, just remember that ...