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Professional Azure SQL Managed Database Administration

You're reading from   Professional Azure SQL Managed Database Administration Efficiently manage and modernize data in the cloud using Azure SQL

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801076524
Length 724 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Ahmad Osama Ahmad Osama
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Preface 1. Introduction to Azure SQL managed databases 2. Service tiers FREE CHAPTER 3. Migration 4. Backups 5. Restoration 6. Security 7. Scalability 8. Elastic and instance pools 9. High availability and disaster recovery 10. Monitoring and tuning 11. Database features 12. App modernization Index

Authentication

Authentication refers to how a user identifies themselves when connecting to a database. There are two types of authentication mechanisms: SQL Server authentication and Azure AD authentication.

SQL authentication

This is similar to what we have in on-premises SQL servers; that is, it requires a username and password. When provisioning a SQL database, you have to provide a server admin login with a username and password. The server admin user has admin access to the SQL server and it's mapped to the dbo user in each user database and therefore has dbowner access on all databases in a particular SQL server.

There can be only one server admin account in a SQL database.

Azure AD authentication

Azure AD authentication allows users to connect to a SQL database and managed instance by using the identities stored in Azure AD.

Azure AD

When you create an Azure account, it creates a default directory for your account. This is where you can add users and...

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