Connect to Existing SQL Azure Database

I'd like to create a Azure Mobile Service (.NET) that reads / writes from an existing database that is being used by an MVC 5 app. I've been trying, without luck, for the better part of a day to make this happen through the few examples that exist on the
internet.
I've just now come across this
StackOverflow post where Carlos Figueira, in a response, says that a mobile service creates a new schema with the same name as the service name and all access is done via that schema and the user that has permission to that schema. If this is the case,
how will I be able to have my mobile service connect to an existing table, if it always creates new tables in the new schema?
Also, I'm getting the impression that mobile services using .NET is much happier if I don't attempt to connect to an existing DB. Is this the case?
Randy Minder

Thank you Matt. I have an additional question, if you don't mind. It appears that if I attempt to connect to an existing Azure DB from Mobile Services, that wasn't created by Mobile Services, a new schema is created in my DB, and Mobile Services recreates
the tables I'm trying to access in that new schema.
For example, say I'm try to access a table named Alert from a mobile service named MyMobileService. It appears that Mobile Services creates a schema named MyMobileService, and a table named Alert in that schema, and uses that table, instead of the table
I really want it to use. 
Is this correct? If so, I really don't want Mobile Services doing this. Is there a work around?
Randy
Randy Minder

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