Azure mobile services backend "mssql" object not found

Question

I am trying to create a custom API for Azure Mobile Services that does a Transact-SQL command on the table. According to the docs I should be able to use an object called 'mssql' to do this (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj554212.aspx). However, the object does not seem to exist and my backend script always fails with error 500 (internal server error). Does this object not exist in custom API backend scripts?

Answer 1

To use that object in a custom API, you should access it via the request object passed to the API:

exports.get = function(request, response) {
    var mssql = request.services.mssql;
    mssql.query('select GETDATE() from myTable', {
        success: function(results) {
            response.send(200, { serverTime: results[0] });
        }
    });
}