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20MB for SQL

Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2016 5:04 pm
by Vegan
Azure has now made a free small database available to startup operators, with 20MB there is not a lot of room for content. Still 20MB is more than needed for a modest sized forum etc. or mybe CRM with a smaller number of accounts.

I make a general database with my Azure account, tables for any site can use the database equally.


the problem, while I have a URL for the database, no user or password fields are provided in the portal, so clearly this is far from primetime

Re: 20MB for SQL

Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2016 6:54 pm
by requinix
20MB can go pretty far, actually. It won't be enough to build a Facebook but it's probably enough for many sites to start with.

So what, you're saying they released this whole free database thing but forgot about the parts where you need a username and password? Riiight.
If you aren't familiar with Azure and don't know how to use it, just say so.

Microsoft typically does stuff using connection strings, not discrete usernames and passwords (though a connection string may use a pair). Look there.

Re: 20MB for SQL

Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2016 6:31 am
by Vegan
I noticed under the database was a place to make a user and password

this seems to be a raw database so I have to manage this the hard way

once I get it figured out, then the fun of trying to leverage it for web development, for now it simply exists a a database object called general, which was intended for all my of web apps

so I guess I need to make an account or 5 for each site as a get to it

Re: 20MB for SQL

Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2016 11:34 am
by Christopher
A quick search show information like this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2358 ... r-in-azure

Re: 20MB for SQL

Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2016 5:49 pm
by Vegan
right now I am going to test it out with phpBB and see if it can leverage the SQL database

then once i have that working, then I can look at other sites