New user cannot login to SQL Azure

Question

I am creating a new read/write user on SQL Azure as follows:

-- Connected to master
create login [fred] with password = \'xxx\';

-- Connected to my DB
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Answer 1

Two other reasons that can trip you up:

1. The Server Login and the Database User must be the same. You cannot have APILogin link to APIUser, Azure just doesn't like it
2. Hyphens aren't allowed in usernames on Azure, so you can't have API-User