Graphical Design on Azure Database

Hi
I have read through a lot of older posts (2009 onwards) regarding the limitations of the SQL management studio when connected to Azure Databases. I'm just making the transition into the cloud, and as far as I can tell, most of the problems still exist,
hopefully someone can tell me I'm wrong...
The big problem is that I cant find a graphical designer for queries within stored procedures. In my local database, within the stored procedure I can just right click and choose 'design query in editor', however when I connect to the Azure database, this
isn't available.
I have tried using the Azure online designer but that's the same, if I right click I just get Silverlight and no obvious option for creating queries graphically.
I'm missing something, as far as I can remember this functionality has been available since way back when, it seems like a pretty big omission? All though its not the end of the world, it was really useful to be able to do this
Any help would be much appreciated
thanks
Andy

Hi Andy,
If your used to create your queries from a graphical tool, I can do nothing but highly recommend SQL Server Data Tools for Visual Studio. This enables you to create Database projects where you'll have a graphical UI for creating your queries. Moreover, this
feature also enalbes you to do things like schema comparison or data comparison directly within Visual Studio.
Alex

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