Connect to Microsoft Azure Storage

Applies to: SQL Server Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Managed Instance Azure Synapse Analytics Analytics Platform System (PDW)

Use the Azure Storage Connection dialog to specify a storage account and validate your connection to Azure.

Options

Specify the following information about your Azure account, and then select Next to continue.

1. Storage Account - Specify the storage account name.

   You can only connect to General-purpose Storage Accounts. Connecting to other types of storage accounts can result in an error similar to the following example:

   The value for one of the HTTP headers is not in the correct format. (Microsoft.SqlServer.StorageClient).

   The remote server returned an error: (400) Bad Request. (System)

2. Account Key - Specify the account key for the specified storage account.

3. Use secure endpoints (HTTPS) - This option utilizes encrypted communication and secure identification of a network web server.

4. Save account key - This option saves your password in an encrypted file.