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Until today I navigated to the website: to retrieve my external IP and add it via the steps mentioned above but today I noticed another option (I think it already was there for quite some time). Within the “Security” Category click on “Firewall”.In the Resource Group blade click on the SQL server.Click on Resource Groups and then the resource group of the SQL server.If you prefer another tool like SQL Server Management studio you will have to configure this within the Azure Portal (as mentioned in the error): When you open the Azure SQL Database within Visual Studio it will prompt you the question if you would like to add your Client IP to the firewall in order to access the database. Client with IP address is not allowed to access the server.” “ Cannot open server requested by the login. Connecting to the server with for example SQL Management Studio will result in the following error: In SSMS, just use Ctrl-Alt-T to bring up the Template Browser and locate the one you need. We can, for example, use a template to create, modify or drop various schema objects, alter a database audit specification, or add a linked server.
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From SSMS open a new query window and type shutdown or s hutdown with nowait. The process from SSMS is very similar to Configuration Manager, right click on the instance and select Stop.
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By default all traffic between Azure services are allowed but traffic from another machine is disallowed. An SSMS template is a SQL script template for performing a common database management task. To shut down SQL Server for the SQL Server Configuration Manager, navigate to your instance, right click and select Stop. One of the first things that need to be done when you create a Azure SQL database is adding the Client IP address to the firewall of the Azure SQL server.