Microsoft Access and Cloud Computing with SQL Azure Databases Linking to SQL Server Tables in the CloudWritten by Luke Chung, President. About Cloud Computing. We at FMS are very excited about cloud computing and started developing. Microsoft Azure including SQL Azure well before it was released to the general public. I feel cloud computing represents the next. Bring Microsoft SQL Server 2017 to the platform of your choice. Use SQL Server 2017 on Windows, Linux, and Docker containers. Learn how to import or link to data from an SQL Server database into Access. Internet in the mid 1. It. will literally revolutionize the way we create, test, host, and deploy applications, and can do it at a fraction of what it costs us today. Read my article Microsoft Azure and Cloud Computing. What it Means to Me and Information Workers. I see cloud computing impacting our community. Microsoft Access Current Database Name Sql Server' title='Microsoft Access Current Database Name Sql Server' />How Cloud Computing Applies to the Microsoft Access Community. Cloud computing will be a huge benefit to the information worker and Access community. Instead of worrying about the hardware and deployment. With Microsoft Access 2. Share. Point 2. 01. Access applications in limited form can be deployed over. Internet. With Microsoft Windows Azure and SQL Azure, one can create. NET applications andor SQL Server databases in the cloud. Using Microsoft Access to Connect to the SQL Server in Azure. The other huge benefit of Microsoft Azure is that it can host SQL Server. At a cost of only 5 per month for a database up to 1 GB in size, its very reasonably priced. From a Microsoft Access database, you can connect to the database and use those tables the same way you could link to SQL Server databases on. SQL Express on your desktop. For a fraction of the cost of buying and setting up a SQL Server box on your network, you can have. Microsoft do it for you without worrying about licenses, downtime, hardware, etc., and its available over the Internet to anyone you give the. Download Game Bubble Gratis Untuk Pc Richard. Its pretty simple Open an Azure account and create a SQL Azure database. Install Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio SSMS for Microsoft SQL Server. The latest version is Microsoft SQL Server 2. Microsoft SQL Server 2. R2 or 2. 01. 2 can also work. Use the ODBC administration tool to create a file containing the connection to the SQL Azure database. From a database opened in Access 2. ODBC connection to link to the SQL Azure tables and views. Installing SQL Server on Your Machine. Theres a bit of confusion around the installation of SQL Server. As the developer, when you use SQL Azure, you dont need to install the full SQL Server product on. PC, just the SQL Server Management Studio SSMS to manage the hosted database. Alternatively, you can install the free SQL Server Express version. Visit our Microsoft SQL Server Express Version Comparison Matrix and Free Downloads page for more information and download links. Installing SQL Server ODBC Drivers on Your Users Machines. The users of your Access database linked to SQL Azure wont even need that. They simply need to have the ODBC driver installed on their machine. For more info, read my paper on Deploying Microsoft Databases Linked to a SQL Azure Database. Users without SQL Server Installed on their Machine. Make Sure Your IP Address is Listed on SQL Azure. For security reasons, SQL Azure like standard SQL Server lets you specify the IP addresses to allow direct interaction with the database. Youll need to specify that in SQL Azures administration tools before proceeding. By default, itll include your current IP address. Youll need. to specify the range of IP addresses of other users you anticipating linking to its tables or deal with that later when you know their IP addresses. Not sure what your IP address is Use the Whats. My. IP. org site to get your current IP address. Creating a File DSN to Connect to a SQL Azure Database. The most complicated part of linking your Access database to SQL Azure is configuring your ODBC connection. Assuming youve taken care of steps 1 and 2 above. Azure account with SQL Server and installed a recent version of Microsoft SQL Server Express, youre ready to run the ODBC administrative tool which can be. Control Panel. Run the ODBC Administrative Tool. When you launch it, the ODBC Data Source Administrator screen appears You can define your DSN data source name either at the user, system machine, or file level. The first two are fine if youll only be. SQL Azure database from your machine. To easily share the connection information with other machines, select the File DSN tab which. Press the Add button to create a new data source Use the latest SQL Server version since they are backward compatible. Download and install it if you dont already have it. You may want to use an older version if your users already have that version installed on their PCs ODBC Driver 1. SQL Server released for 2. SP1 and SQL Azure version 1. ODBC Driver 1. 3 for SQL Server released for Microsoft SQL Server 2. SQL Server Native Client 1. Microsoft SQL Server 2. SQL Server Native Client 1. Microsoft SQL Server 2. R2and press Next. For a history of SQL Server versions, visit our page Microsoft SQL Server Express Version Comparison Matrix and Free Downloads. Do not choose the legacy SQL Server or SQL Native Client. Significant. performance problems are associated with using those old drivers against newer versions of SQL Server. Then specify the name of the file to store the information and press Next and Finish to verify it. Then you begin to specify the Microsoft SQL Azure elements which is similar to setting up any ODBC DSN for SQL Server. Create a New Data Source to SQL Server. Well create a sample DSN for our project. Youll need to know the server name from SQL Azure which looks something like. After pressing Next, provide the login ID and password to your SQL Azure database When you press Next, if your entries are valid, this screen appears Select the name of the database you created on SQL Azure. The default is master, but hopefully your database is named something more descriptive. Press Next to reach the final screen Make sure you check the Use strong encryption for data option, then press Finish. A screen will appear to let you test your settings. Press the Test Data Source button. If everything is okay, a screen like this should appear Linking Microsoft Access to SQL Server Tables in Azure. Now that youve created a file with the DSN for your SQL Azure database, youre ready to link an Access database to tables in your Azure database. From Access, on a machine with SQL Server 2. R2 or later installed, you can then link to tables in the database. Link to an ODBC Database from Microsoft Access 2. Access 2. 00. 7Depending on which Access version youre using, select the ODBC Database option under the External Data ribbon Microsoft Access 2. Later. Microsoft Access 2. The dialog box appears to import or link to the ODBC database. In our case, wed like to link to the database so we always have the latest data Select Data Source. The next step is to specify the data source by selecting DSN File we created if you created the ODBC setting for user or system, use the Machine Data Source tab Select Tables. Itll prompt you again for the password. Once you provide that, the list of tables from the SQL Azure database are presented. Select them like you. If you want to avoid entering the database password every time you open the linked table in Access, be sure to check the Save Password option By choosing the option to save the password in the Access database, a security hole is created. Youll need to decide if this risk is worth taking. If you choose to save the password, you are prompted that this is a security issue There are a few problems with this dialog box The Help button gives no relevant information. The dialog box appears for every table you selected, so you need to manually select Save Password for each one. Once you get through that which has nothing to do with SQL Azure, youll find your database has linked tables and views to SQL Azure. Open and. use the tables and views just like any other SQL Server data source. Link to an ODBC Database from Microsoft Access 2. Connecting to a DB Instance Running the Microsoft SQL Server Database Engine. After Amazon RDS provisions your DB instance. SQL client application to connect to the DB instance. In this topic you connect to your DB instance by using either. Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio SSMS. SQL WorkbenchJ. For an example that walks you through the process of creating and connecting to a. DB instance. see Creating a Microsoft SQL Server DB Instance and Connecting to a DB Instance. Connecting to Your DB Instance with Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio. In this procedure you connect to your sample DB instance. Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio SSMS. To download a stand alone version of this utility, see. Download SQL Server Management Studio SSMS. Microsoft documentation. To connect to a DB Instance using SSMSSign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon RDS console at. In the top right corner of the Amazon RDS console. DB instance. Find the DNS name and port number for your DB Instance. Open the RDS console and then choose Instances. DB instances. Choose the row for your SQL Server DB instance. Copy the endpoint. The Endpoint field has two parts separated by a colon. The part before the colon is the DNS name for the instance. Copy both parts. Start SQL Server Management Studio. The Connect to Server dialog box appears. Provide the information for your DB instance. For Server type. choose Database Engine. For Server name. type or paste the DNS name and port number of your DB Instance. Important. Change the colon between the DNS name and port number to a comma. For example, your server name should look like the following. For Authentication. SQL Server Authentication. For Login. type the master user name for your DB instance. For Password. type the password for your DB instance. Choose Connect. After a few moments, SSMS connects to your DB instance. If you cant connect to your DB instance. Security Group Considerations. Troubleshooting the Connection to Your SQL Server DB Instance. Your SQL Server DB instance comes with SQL Servers standard built in system databases. To explore the system databases, do the following. In SSMS, on the View menu, choose Object Explorer. Expand your DB instance, expand Databases. System Databases as shown following. Your SQL Server DB instance also comes with a database named rdsadmin. Amazon RDS uses this database to store the objects that it uses to manage your database. The rdsadmin database also includes stored procedures. For more information, see. Common DBA Tasks for Microsoft SQL Server. You can now start creating your own databases. DB instance and databases as usual. To run a test query against your DB instance. In SSMS, on the File menu point to New. Query with Current Connection. Type the following SQL query. Copyselect VERSIONRun the query. SSMS returns the SQL Server version of your Amazon RDS DB instance. Connecting to Your DB Instance with SQL WorkbenchJThis example shows how to connect to a DB instance running the Microsoft SQL Server. SQL WorkbenchJ database tool. To download SQL WorkbenchJ, see. SQL WorkbenchJ. SQL WorkbenchJ uses JDBC to connect to your DB instance. You also need the JDBC driver for SQL Server. To download this driver, see. Microsoft JDBC Drivers 4. Preview and 4. 0 for SQL Server. To connect to a DB instance using SQL Workbench. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon RDS console at. In the top right corner of the Amazon RDS console. DB instance. Find the DNS name and port number for your DB Instance. Open the RDS console and then choose Instances. DB instances. Choose the row for your SQL Server DB instance. Copy the endpoint. The Endpoint field has two parts separated by a colon. The part before the colon is the DNS name for the instance. Copy both parts. Open SQL WorkbenchJ. The Select Connection Profile dialog box appears, as shown following. In the first box at the top of the dialog box, enter a name for the profile. For Driver, select SQL JDBC 4. For URL. type jdbc sqlserver. DB instance. For example, the URL value could be the following. Copyjdbc sqlserver sqlsvr pdz. For Username. type or paste the master user name for the DB instance. For Password. type the password for the master user. Choose the save icon in the dialog toolbar. Choose OK. After a few moments, SQL WorkbenchJ connects to your DB instance. If you cant connect to your DB instance. Security Group Considerations. Troubleshooting the Connection to Your SQL Server DB Instance. In the query pane, type the following SQL query. Copyselect VERSIONChoose the execute icon in the toolbar. The query returns the version information for your DB instance. Copy. Microsoft SQL Server 2. X6. 4Security Group Considerations. To connect to your DB instance. DB instance must be associated with a security group. IP addresses and network configuration that you use to access the. DB instance. You may have associated your DB instance with an appropriate security group when you. DB instance. If you assigned a default, non configured security group when you created your DB. DB instance firewall prevents connections. If you need to create a new security group to enable access. Amazon EC2 platform. DB instance is on. To determine your platform, see Determining Whether You Are Using the EC2 VPC or EC2 Classic Platform. In general, if your DB instance is on the EC2 Classic platform. DB security group. DB instance is on the VPC platform. VPC security group. For instructions on creating a new security group, see. Amazon RDS Security Groups. After you have created the new security group. DB instance to associate it with the security group. For more information, see. Modifying a DB Instance Running the Microsoft SQL Server Database Engine. You can enhance security by using SSL to encrypt connections to your DB instance. For more information, see. Using SSL with a Microsoft SQL Server DB Instance. Troubleshooting the Connection to Your SQL Server DB Instance. The following are issues you might encounter. SQL Server DB instance. Issue. Troubleshooting Suggestions. Unable to connect to your DB instance. For a newly created DB instance. DB instance has a status of creating. DB instance is ready to use. When the state changes to available. DB instance. Depending on the DB instance class and the amount of storage. Unable to connect to your DB instance. If you cant send or receive communications. DB instance. you cant connect to the DB instance. Check with your network administrator. DB instance. allows inbound and outbound communication. Unable to connect to your DB instance. The access rules enforced by your local firewall. IP addresses you authorized to access your DB instance. DB instance might not not match. The problem is most likely the egress or ingress rules on your firewall. For more information about security groups, see. Amazon RDS Security Groups. For a topic that walks you through the process of setting up rules for your security. Tutorial Create an Amazon VPC for Use with an Amazon RDS DB Instance. Could not open a connection to SQL Server. Microsoft SQL Server, Error 5. Make sure specified the server name correctly. For Server name. type or paste the DNS name and port number of your sample DB Instance. Important. Change the colon between the DNS name and port number to a comma. For example, your server name should look like the following sample instance. No connection could be made. Microsoft SQL Server, Error 1. You were able to reach the DB instance. This is usually caused by specifying. Verify the user name and password and then retry.