I have implemented Umbraco using UmbracoIdentity for membership and everything was going fine until I deployed my solution to an Azure Web App. On azure I am getting permission errors because UmbracoIdentity is using a SQL Server CE database stored in the App_Data folder.
For reference the error I am getting is:
Exception type: SqlCeException
There is a file sharing violation. A different process might be using the file. [ ...\wwwroot\App_Data\UmbracoIdentity.sdf ]
My Umbraco data is being stored in an SQL database and I would like to store my UmbracoIdentity membership data here as well. I would appreciate any help in how to setup SQL Server as the user store for membership data.
You need to implement the IExternalLoginStore.cs interface and then configure the application to use it. It should be fairly simple to implement as you can use the SQL Server CE implementation as an example. I've done one for Azure Table Storage - you can check the Readme at https://github.com/alindgren/UmbracoIdentity.AzureLoginStore to get an idea of how to configure the app to use a custom external login store (which for me was the least obvious part).
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I built a MVC site with Identity that will be replacing an old site that uses Asp.Net 2.0 security. I used a local database to create all of my pages. I'm finally at a point that I want to use my hosting provider's SQL Server. I published my code and changed the connection string to point to the hosted SQL Server. Migrations are turned on and I even ran "Update-Database". However, I don't see tables like "AspNetRoles" or "AspNetUsers". I went ahead and changed the connection string on my local machine to point to the hosted SQL server to make it easier to test out. I tried logging in with one of the accounts I created previously and it said it couldn't be found. That's actually a good thing since it tells me that it's pointing to a new database. I went ahead and created a new user hoping it would auto create the database tables. The new user worked and I can log in with the account but I still can't see the tables when I look at it through SQL Studio Mgr. Yes, I did refresh the tables under SQL Server and still don't see them. Any suggestions on why I'm not seeing the Identity tables?
I am creating an iOS project that needs to read a SQL database in Azure. I have the database Server location, port, username, and password. I don't need to write to the database, just read it. I am more familiar with Firebase or Parse and have never used Azure. How do I even go about starting this? I tried the sample project that Azure makes for you but I don't have any tables? Do I need this? Any help would be welcome.
Azure Mobile App Service can connect with your existing SQL database
this thread explains the process where you use the existing SQL database. With this option Azure manages most of the inner workings for you.
If you want to build the Rest API from "scratch" using your existing SQL database You have some more options:
Azure API Management allows you to publish API's securely and at scale, A server less Azure Function like the example in this article Rest API with Azure Functions and Azure SQL Database or build a rest API using an Azure Logic App which doesn't require you to write code. You could also use Nodejs or many other tools you just need to evaluate what would work best for your use case.
I have an asp.net MVC application in Azure web apps which connects to SQL Azure.
Currently I store Elmah errors in App_data. These can build up. Also I feel writing these files is inefficient. In addition when you download the "Next 50" errors, there can be a hit on the server.
How can I improve my persistence strategy? I suspect it may be to use a database. Would this be a seperate database to the application database or the same one?
I am also testing Application Insights. At present I suspect that Elmah has a role alongside Application Insights, but I might be wrong.
Thanks.
As mentioned in the previous answer you can store the log files in a sql azure database . or you can go with a cheaper option of azure table storage which is a no-sql based data store. There is a provider available for the same.
https://github.com/MisinformedDNA/Elmah.AzureTableStorage
https://www.nuget.org/packages/WindowsAzure.ELMAH.Tables/
or if you looking more at a data dump of your logs say in xml format and does not really need a queryable format you can opt for a much cheaper azure blob storage .
https://github.com/dampee/Blob-Elmah
An Elmah database can be used in a separate Azure DB to not consume your "Business" database DTUs and by the way never affect it's performance if you want to log a lot of things.
On the one hand Elmah can take care of "Functionnal" logs, on the other and application Insight can do telemery and monitoring logs, besides you can enable server and applications logs in the Azure Portal to get automatic logs in a storage account, here is an overview of those server and application logs.
I am planning to build an iOS app with using DB(Ms-Sql).
However, people recommends not to access DB from Xcode.
They recommend me to use php or asp for accessing db through a webpage.
I want to know the reason.
Also I am going to use DB only for (view) select line (not insert, update nor delete).
so is it possible to access directly to db for viewing purpose only?
thank you
It's generally bad for an application (mobile, web, any client) to directly have access to any database for security issues. Clients really should not be accessing the database, which is often holding very private/secure data. It opens up vulnerabilities (i.e., sql injection attack).
A set of web services written in php or java or some back-end technology is a more secure, scalable system. These web services can connect to the database and retrieve data. Your iOS application can call the web services and receive the data..for example in the form of XML or JSON.
I am writing an iOS application that needs to access data from an external SQL Server 2005 database. I already have a website that accesses the same data.
I usually access the SQL server database using .NET along with stored procedures for security reasons.
I need to populate an array that will itself populate another TableViewController.
As I'm fairly new to the whole iOS thing, kindly let me know how I can do this. If it's possible, please suggest the syntax or Google keywords for this.
I'd recommend making a simple WCF .NET REST Service that queries your database and returns what you need.
I'm pretty sure your iOS app will not be able to connect to it directly.
Check out the following;
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb412178.aspx
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/105273/Create-RESTful-WCF-Service-API-Step-By-Step-Guide
The code project tutorial is very easy to follow. And you can download the project code.
It sounds like you will want to make an API to access your database and you can access it through web requests. Essentially you will be performing web requests and respond from your site in json or xml where within your iOS client side code you can parse that and do what you need with it.