Listing Firewall rules in SQL Azure

In this post, we will fetch firewall rules from SQL Azure. Each Database server in SQL Azure is associated with one or more firewall rules. Each firewall rules have,

1. Name
2. Start IP Address
3. End IP Address

Firewall rules can be fetched by querying against Master Database.

To retrieve firewall rules login to SQL Azure portal and open Database Manager for Master database.



Read here about SQL Azure portal and working with Database Manager

Once, Database manager is open select new query option and execute below select statement.

select name , start_ip_address, end_ip_address FROM sys.FireWall_rules

On successful execution on select statement all firewall rules will get listed as below,



In coming article we will fetch firewall rules programmatically.