(1.1) Create your SQL Database

Caio Gasparine
3 min readOct 4, 2023

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How to create a SQL Database in Microsoft Azure

This is part of a series of articles called Azure Challenges. You can refer to the Intro Page to understand more about how the challenges work.

Azure SQL logo

Go to https://portal.azure.com/#home and select <Create a Resource>

Select SQL Database

Add the information required to create your resource:

(1) Resource Group

(2) Database Name

(3) Server

When adding the server you can select <Create New> and define your Server Name, admin login, password, and location.

You should have something like this:

After that, you need to define your computing power to run your SQL instance.

You can choose between DTUs and vCores. You can use the link below to understand better the difference between the 2 options

You need to choose the redundancy options. You can check the redundancy option using this link.

By the end of this process, you need to confirm your info and select <Create>

Just wait for your deployment and your solution will be ready to use! After the deployment of your service, you should be able to see it in your Azure Portal.

As you can see in the screenshot below you have 2 resources: (1) SQL Database and (2) the Resource Group.

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Caio Gasparine
Caio Gasparine

Written by Caio Gasparine

Project Manager | Data & AI | Professor

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