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Overview of Azure SQL Database

Overview of Tools for Azure SQL Database
There are several tools available for managing Azure specific aspects and Database specific aspects.
Tools for managing Azure specific aspects are:
  • Azure Portal
  • Azure PowerShell
  • Azure CLI
  • Azure Resource Managers Templates
Tools for managing Database specific aspects are:
  • SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio)
  • SQLCMD
  • Visual Studio

SSMS is an integrated tool for managing any SQL infrastructure. SSMS is used to configure, access, administer, implement and develop all components of SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, and SQL Data Warehouse.

SSMS gets connected to your Azure SQL database and SQL server by SQL Server connect authentication, which allows you to manage your SQL infrastructure.
The SQL Server Management Studio Object Explorer component is used to view and manage the objects in SQL server instances.

The SQL server object Explorer in Visual Studio allows you to connect to your Azure subscription and its all database instances.

It enables the functionality of working directly in Visual Studio from your Azure portal and makes it feel like a local database.

Command Line Tools for Azure SQL Database
The Azure SQL database can be accessed through command line tools such as PowerShell and SQLCMD.
Windows PowerShell contains the entire library of PowerShell cmdlets in the UI itself, which are used for administering Azure SQL database.
PowerShell is specifically used for administering and automating the database. This cannot help in querying the data.
Querying the data from the command line is provisioned with SQL-CMD, which is a standard SQL command line administration tool (command-line sequel query editor).

This allows to query data, manipulating data and execute Transact-SQL commands
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