Connect to Azure SQL Server

Step 1. Allow Ubiq's public IP in Azure

Log in to your Windows Azure account, select SQL Databases from the navigation, then select the name of the database you would like to connect to.

Make note of the server name and port number at the bottom of the page. This is the information you will use in the Host and Port fields when creating a connection to Ubiq. Click the Dashboard link at the top of the page.

Scroll down and click the link to Manage allowed IP addresses in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen.

Add a new rule using the following information:

Rule Name: Ubiq

Start IP Address: 54.245.93.65

End IP Address: 54.245.93.65

Click the Save button at the bottom of the page


Step 2. Create a connection at Ubiq

The data connection form has the following fields:

  • Database Type - SQL Server
  • Host IP or URL - Host name of your Azure SQL database. Use the value (xxxxxxx.database.windows.net) you have noted in Step 1.
  • Database name - the name of the database you're connecting
  • Database Username - the name of a preferably read-only user to your database
  • Database Password - the password for the read-only user
  • Database Port - the port that the database is listening to (default: 1433).

Please ensure the host name, database name, user name, password & port are entered correctly before you click Connect. On successful connection, you will see the data source listed under the Data Sources Tab. In case of issues, you will see an intuitive message on the screen.

For SSL connections, you can connect your MySQL database hosted on Amazon RDS to Ubiq with just 4 steps.

1. Add Ubiq's public IP in RDS Security Groups

Access your RDS Management Console.

Navigate to DB Security Groups from the left sidebar and select one of your security groups. A form for a CIDR will be presented. Paste the Ubiq CIDR: 54.245.93.65/32 into the form and click Add to add Ubiq to your security group. This will allow Ubiq to access your RDS instance.

Note - If you are using the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) you will need to setup an elastic IP to your RDS instance so that it will be accessible outside the your VPC by the Ubiq servers.


2. Create a read-only user in MySQL

Copy & update the following commands and paste them into a MySQL shell to create the user. Please replace the parts in bold below as per your requirement. This will create a read-only user that Ubiq can use to access your database.

CREATE USER $user@'54.245.93.65' IDENTIFIED BY '$password';

GRANT SELECT, SHOW VIEW

ON $database_name.*

TO $user@'54.245.93.65' IDENTIFIED BY '$password' REQUIRE SSL;

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Where $database_name, $user, and $password are the values you will be using in the form below. If your database name has spaces in it, please use the name within ``.


3. Create SSL certificates

If you have configured your server to accept SSL connections, you can skip this step. Else, please confirm ssl support on your MySQL installation by typing in your shell:

mysqld --ssl --help

If you have not added location of MySQL installation to PATH environment variable, you will need to navigate to bin subfolder at your MySQL installation location.

If you see something like [ERROR] mysqld: unknown option '--ssl' it means you need to upgrade your server. MySQL has supported SSL for quite some time so it should not really be a problem.

Please refer to Create SSL certificates to learn how to create SSL certificates.


4. Create a connection at Ubiq

When you click on Create Connection on the Data Sources tab, on project homepage, you will see the following form.

Select the type of database you want to create a connection for. The form has the following fields:

  • Connector Name - Connection/Data source name you want to refer the connection as.
  • Host name - the host name of your RDS instance. If you click on your RDS instance, you can find it as a variable called Endpoint.

  • Database name - the name of the database you're connecting
  • User name - the name of a preferably read-only user to your database
  • Password - the password for the read-only user
  • Port Number - the port that the database is listening to (default: 3306). You can locate it in my.conf(linux) or my.ini(windows) under the line [client]
  • SSL CA - upload the .pem file of certification authority (ca-cert.pem created in Step 3) here.

Please ensure the host name, database name, user name, password & port are entered correctly before you click Connect. On successful connection, you will see the data source listed under the Data Sources Tab. In case of issues, you will see an intuitive message on the screen.