title: Azure Mobile Services - Connect to Existing Database
body: <p>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.</p>
  
  <p>I've just now come across this <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23962208/two-azure-mobile-services-net-backend-sharing-the-same-database">SO post </a> where Carlos Figueira 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 <strong>existing</strong> table, if it always creates new tables in the new schema?</p>
  
  <p>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?</p>