I cannot edit or view rows in an Azure database using SQL Server Management Studio. Am I missing something? The option does not exist.
Now you can , you need to have SSMS 2014 with Cummulative Update 5 or later. The latest CU is always listed in the "SQL Server 2014 build versions" KB article .
If you refer to the Select Top 1000 Rows and Edit Top 200 Rows in the table context menu, they are not available in Microsoft Azure Databases. You must use SQL statements to retrieve / modify your data.
Select Top 1000 Rows
Edit Top 200 Rows
Update : from December 18 to 2014, you can do this with the latest SSMS: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlreleaseservices/archive/2014/12/18/sql-server-2014-management-studio-updated -support-for-the-latest-azure-sql-database-update-v12-preview.aspx
If you cannot download the patch for any reason, there is a workaround.
If you create a view, you get the "Edit Rows" context menu. Then you can use the editor that opens to create queries on the actual table, as usual.
SSMS 2016 also suffered from this problem. The latest CU (SP1 CU4) fixed this for me.