The Althoff Chronicles

This week i had to create a few new users for a SQL Azure database. I have to do this often, but I can never remember the exact steps that need to be run. If you've connected to a SQL Azure instance, you'll quickly see that some of the useful UI Options don't exist or work differently. For example, if you want to add a new user, you get a SQL script that just creates the user, but doesn't give them any access to the database: SQL: In order to actually give the user access to a database, you need to switch your connection to the database you want to the user to access and run the following command: CREATE USER [UserName] FOR LOGIN [ UserName] WITH DEFAULT_SCHEMA = dbo GO -- Add user to the database owner role EXEC sp_addrolemember N'db_owner', N'[ UserName] ' GO You can switch out the default schema and role to whatever fits your needs. After all of that, the user should work, but if you try to connect from SQL Mg...

I recently ran into an issue when trying to restart an Azure App Service from PowerShell. The command to do it is Restart-AzureWebsite , but when I attempted to run it, I got the following error: “Restart-AzureWebsite : Your Azure credentials have not been set up or have expired, please run Add-AzureAccount to set up your Azure credentials” I ran the Add-AzureAccount command but I continued to get the same error. After some digging I realized that I had more than 1 Azure subscription and the command was using the wrong one when attempting to restart the website. I ran the following command to retrieve the subscriptions that are cached on my PC: Get-AzureSubscription That returns all of the subscriptions for all of the accounts that you’ve added from Azure. I found the subscription that was correct for the website I was attempting to restart and then ran this command: Select-AzureSubscription -SubscriptionName "MySubscription" That set the sub...