At this moment I'm following this tutorial: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/sql-database-elastic-query-getting-started/

But when I use this code: 

CREATE EXTERNAL DATA SOURCE MyElasticDBQueryDataSrc WITH
  (TYPE = SHARD_MAP_MANAGER,
  LOCATION = '<used_my_server_name_here>.database.windows.net',
  DATABASE_NAME = 'ElasticScaleStarterKit_ShardMapManagerDb',
  CREDENTIAL = ElasticDBQueryCred,
  SHARD_MAP_NAME = 'CustomerIDShardMap'
) ;

I get the following error message:

Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Line 8
Incorrect syntax near 'EXTERNAL'.

At the moment I'm using the latest version of the SQL 2014 management studio:

Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 12.0.4416.0
Microsoft Analysis Services Client Tools 12.0.4416.0
Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 6.3.9600.16384
Microsoft MSXML 3.0 5.0 6.0 
Microsoft Internet Explorer 9.11.9600.16384
Microsoft .NET Framework         4.0.30319.34003
Operating System 6.3.9600

Does anyone know how to solve this? 

Hi Jos,

Thanks for reporting this issue. Were you able to successfully create your master key and your credential as described in the tutorial? We had new syntax for credential creation getting deployed over the weekend. But, if the master key and the credential were created successfully then you are facing a different issue.

We were trying to repro your situation here, but could not. Could you let us know which region you created your SQL DB server in - and the name of your server? That will help us to either repro or find out from the logs what's happening. You can send the information via email to torsteng(at)microsoft(dot)com.

Thanks,

Torsten

Hi Jos,

Please check your DB edition. Currently Elastic DB Query is enabled only on Premium DBs. We are looking at supporting it on other service tiers soon.