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In my earlier article, I explained, how to RESTORE the backup from URL using T-SQL and it was quite simple & easy to understand. In this article, I will explain how to how to RESTORE the backup from URL using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). It would be the same configuration but with the different screens & steps.

Pre-Requisite :

1. Microsoft Azure – How to create storage and container
2. SQL SERVER 2014 – How to take backup to URL (Windows Azure Storage) – SSMS
   

Let me now demonstrate in few easy steps how to RESTORE backup from URL.

Step 1 – Create Account, storage & container :
First of all you need to create a windows Azure account, a storage and a container as explained in this article.

Step 2 – Create Credential :
Once you have the details of Azure account, you need to create the credential using given below script. But if you notice, this script requires two parameters namely IDENTITY & SECRET. So how will I get them? Actually IDENTITY is the storage name that we created in the Pre-Requisite article -1 (Step 4) namely ‘raresql‘ and SECRET is the primary access key that we also picked up in the Pre-Requisite article -1 (Step 5). Lets create a credential.

Note: Please skip this step if you have already created the credentials.

USE master
GO
CREATE CREDENTIAL [My_Credential]
WITH IDENTITY ='raresql'
,SECRET = '/ByNUTZqJ6EcJR/VQcNmNj+zSu++iCfbcxlyWye6Ok9uY3L5nw3XkndmAnDjiKn'
GO

Step 3 – Open Windows Azure Storage dialogue box :
Once you created the credentials, the next step is to right click on the particular database you want to restore the back up and select tasks, further you need to select Restore and Database … as shown below.

Step 4 – Connect to Windows Azure Storage :
Now, SSMS opened the Connect Windows Azure Storage dialogue box, here you need to enter storage account (Pre-Requisite article -1 (Step 4)), account key (Pre-Requisite article -1 (Step 5)) & select / create the credentials. As we have already created the credentials in the above step, we will just select the credentials and click on Connect button as shown below.

Step 5 – RESTORE the backup from URL :
Once you click on the Connect button, it will authenticate your account with Azure, once it will be authenticated, it will open the restore dialogue box and shows your back up. Now, you can select the back and restore it as shown below.

As you can see, the messages show that your backup has been restored successfully.