Azure SQL database To start, log in to Microsoft Azure using your administrative credentials. From the Home or Dashboard screen, click the Create a resource (+) link.

An Azure subscription An administrative account that has permissions to create a SQL database The AzureRm PowerShell modules from the PowerShell Gallery (Install-Module -Name AzureRm) A resource group ...

However, it's somewhat limited in that it can only operate on Azure SQL Database. Elastic Jobs also requires you to create an Azure SQL Database to manage the jobs.

Microsoft's premade templates allows for the deployment of SQL databases without having to use complex PowerShell commands.

By using a single tool like PowerShell, you can access your data wherever it is stored. It does not matter if it is in the cloud in an Azure SQL database or in an on-premises MS-SQL server, MySQL or ...