Bypassing the Azure Portal and going straight to PowerShell will provide you with more options for managing Microsoft's cloud.

2. Connect to Azure Once you have the Azure PowerShell module downloaded, you must authenticate to your Azure subscription. Microsoft needs to know what storage accounts you have access to and what ...

When you need a SQL database fast, the cloud is the best way to go. Azure provides a SQL database as a PaaS that eliminates the need to get an entire SQL Server deployment up and running.

Figure 2. Successful Azure PowerShell Connection Output. Although this next step might have been set for other reasons, you must have a server firewall rule setup to allow incoming SQL connections ...