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Liam Weston
Liam Weston

Reputation: 243

Creating a development web server on Azure virtual machine with Azure SQL database

I want to move my development environment to Azure and I need to be able to debug as I would on a local machine so I'm thinking that an Azure virtual machine is the way to go. I would prefer not to have to install SQL Server on that VM (or to have a separate database server) so I'm wondering if I can point an Azure VM acting as a development web server running Visual Studio at an Azure SQL Database?

If anybody has experience of how best to set this up I would be grateful.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 795

Answers (1)

Simon W
Simon W

Reputation: 5496

You could just use SQL Express or LocalDB which ship with Visual Studio (depending on version), but nothing to stop you from using Azure SQL Database other than perhaps the feature incompatibilities it has with on-premises SQL Server - these will eventually be addressed but are present today.

If you have MSDN make sure to utilise your Azure credits (assuming you aren't using MSDN via an Enterprise Agreement).

Upvotes: 1

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