# Azure SQL Connection issue

**URL:** <https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/azure-sql-connection-issue/1520>\
**Category:** Connecting to SQL\
**Created:** [September 24, 2015, 8:18am UTC](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/azure-sql-connection-issue/1520 "2015-09-24T08:18:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 1:54pm UTC](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/azure-sql-connection-issue/1520/2 "2015-09-28T13:54:46Z")

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Check out [this blog post](https://blog.dreamfactory.com/add-a-rest-api-to-any-sql-db-in-minutes):

> For MS SQL and Azure this would be port 1433, and you would add @servername to your user name in the service configuration such as ‘dreamfactory@r92ul6qcff’.

[This forum post](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/bitnami-azure-sql-server-failed-to-launch-service-cdbconnection/1373/4) also covers the need to format your connection string with `username@`. This is documented by Microsoft [here](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/ee336282.aspx).

If this does not help, please reply back with the error(s) from your DreamFactory log.

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