SSMS not found in Azure VM

Question

I've created Azure VM and successfully hosted my website on it.
But then i realise i cannot find SSMS inside it in order for me to host my database.

After some research, i realised that i didn't enable SQL Database when i first create VM, is there any way to enable it if don't want to recreate VM?

Answer 1

If you just want SSMS tool to connect to existing servers/DBs, you can download and install the SSMS in VM from here - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/ssms/download-sql-server-management-studio-ssms?view=sql-server-ver15

Answer 2

You can follow along here to add an SQL Sever instance to the VM

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/sql/virtual-machines-windows-sql-server-iaas-faq