title: Connecting ASP on Azure Virtual Machine to Azure Db
body: <p>Has anyone ever connected ASP (ASP, aka classic not .NET) to an Azure db? I've had three experts looks at connection strings, endpoints, firewalls, db accounts and they're finding</p>
  
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  <li>the database works and contains data </li>
  <li>the database is accessible remotely by our local machines via Visual Studio and SQL Server Manager</li>
  <li>ASP runs on web server on the VM machine</li>
  <li>All the connection strings offered by Azure fail</li>
  <li>All db related ports are open</li>
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