Azure Sql Firewall Configuration
In this post I will show you how to configure firewall settings for Azure SQL server in order to connect from your local development machine or from some remote machine where your application is hosted. More or less, the process is same. What is firewall, in azure's case IP firewall Technically speaking, firewall is a software program which prevents unauthorized access to your system. We can think of firewall as a bouncer waiting outside of the midnight party club. The bouncer only allows the spectators to pass through the club's door whoever has the pass/invitation to join the party. Pretty cool, huh. As network traffic passes through the firewall, the firewall decides which traffic to forward and which traffic not to forward, based on rules that we have defined. In azure SQL we have to add some firewall rules for allowing trusted users to pass through the wall of winterfell. In azure world , the users who can have access to SQL server are called clients. By allowi...