Azure Platform

Microsoft Azure is a set of cloud services which helps us to deploy applications on a massive, global network allowing for scalability.

Microsoft Azure is a competitor to Amazon's cloud services due to the similarity in the services.

My teacher gave us provided us access to the SQL database in Azure for free.

Upon accessing platform, I can see a huge array of tools that Azure provides

This is the Overview page for the database, I find it kind of cool that they offer a lot of information and tools that provides more versatility to the database usage.

They even have a Query editor which we can use to access the database. This is beneficial to me as I use a macbook, I will not need to switching to windows to access the Microsoft SQL Management Studio or download a software and configure it to access the database every time.

They have quick start guides as well, but there isn't really a need to go through the quick start guide as, I have previous experience with MSSQL, just need to change the connection strings

Since Azure is by Microsoft, they have a huge support for C# applications. They make it very easy for us to make an application to access the database via C#. All we need is a connection string to do so.

Going through this, I decided to test the database a little. I created a table called Test with ID and Name as columns

Github link: https://github.com/adwinang/azuretest