'SalesDB', 'host' => 'tcp:dbname.windows.net', 'user' => 'user@dbname', 'password' => 'XXX', 'sharding' => array( 'federationName' => 'Orders_Federation', 'distributionKey' => 'CustId', 'distributionType' => 'integer', ) ); if ($config['host'] == "tcp:dbname.windows.net") { die("You have to change the configuration to your Azure account.\n"); } $conn = DriverManager::getConnection($config); $shardManager = new SQLAzureShardManager($conn);