in this video we'll show how you can set
up your free
sql cloud database for use
with alpha anywhere so in order to
create a
sql cloud database you must have an
alpha cloud
subscription so if
and then select subscription test
databases and if you've not yet logged
into your alpha cloud account you'll get
your login dialog over here so let's
just go ahead
and log in and this is then going to
open up the
manage subscription uh database where we
can
manage all of the uh cloud sql databases
so uh initially we don't have any
databases and we can go ahead here now
and we can create
uh mariahdb sql server or postgres
cloud databases so i'm going to just go
ahead here and click actions
and then i'm going to go here and choose
create server
and i can choose what type of database
server i'd like to create so i'm going
to start out by creating say mariahdb
and then click create and now alpha will
create
a cloud mariah db
instance for me so the instance has
been created but we actually need to
wait a couple of seconds
before we do anything else to actually
let the instance finish
creating once the instance has finished
being created we can go here now and
perform additional actions on the server
so the first thing we'd like to do
is actually create a sample database
so we can work with this mariah db
instance so i'm going to go there
check the box over there to indicate
that i'm going to be applying an
action to this database server there
go ahead and click the
actions button and this time i'm going
to say install
sample database so i'll go there and
click ok
and this is going to go ahead now and
create a
instance of the demo northwind database
for me
so i don't have any existing databases
i'll just go here and just type in say
nw
and then say install sample data
and go ahead then click ok
and after a short while the database
will be created
and now i can go ahead and use this
database
from within alpha so in the next video
we'll show how you can create a
connection string to point to your cloud
sql database
and how you can then use this database
in your applications
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