Walkthrough of Creating a Database in SQL Azure

In this article, we will see how to create a database in SQL Azure.

Step 1

Login to SQL Azure portal with your live credential

https://sql.azure.com/

Step 2

Click on SQL Azure tab. You will get the project, you have created for yourself.



Step 3

Click on the project. In my case the project name is debugmode. After clicking on the project, you will get a list of all databases created in your SQL Azure account.



Here in my account there are two databases already created. They are master and student database. Master database is the default database created by SQL Azure for you.

Step 4

Click on Create Database



Step 5

Give the name of your database. Select the edition as Web and specify the max size of database.



You can select other option also for the edition as business



Step 6

After that click on Create; you can see on Databases tab that Demo1 database has been created.