Azure - Changed admin password for DB and now can't access database

Question

I have a Azure account and have deployed an MVC app.

I changed the admin password for the db and updated my web.config accordingly and after I've published the app, the app can't access the db. I get the following error:

Login failed for user 'xxx'.
This session has been assigned a tracing ID of '11a7a162-ff21-42f0-a8ea-8e5ce25b8ab6'.  
Provide this tracing ID to customer support when you need assistance.

Any help appreciated. I've been over everything with a fine toothcomb and I can login to the db using SQL Management studio using the new credentials. The DB is dead however.

The only other thing I did was change the size of the DB from 1GB to 5GB.

Answer 1

I managed to fix this and for anyone out there, here's the gotcha. Even when I changed the connection strings in the publish profile, they were ignored. I had to go to the Azure portal and change the connection string settings against the deployed web app directly.

I wonder whether this is a bug with Azure. I would have expected my publish profile settings to change the connection strings on the deployed application.