Book Image

Professional Azure SQL Database Administration - Second Edition

By : Ahmad Osama
Book Image

Professional Azure SQL Database Administration - Second Edition

By: Ahmad Osama

Overview of this book

Despite being the cloud version of SQL Server, Azure SQL Database differs in key ways when it comes to management, maintenance, and administration. This book shows you how to administer Azure SQL Database to fully benefit from its wide range of features and functionalities. Professional Azure SQL Database Administration begins by covering the architecture and explaining the difference between Azure SQL Database and the on-premise SQL Server to help you get comfortable with Azure SQL Database. You’ll perform common tasks such as migrating, backing up and restoring a SQL Server database to an Azure database. As you progress, you’ll understand how you can reduce costs, and manage and scale multiple SQL databases using elastic pools. You’ll also implement a disaster recovery solution using standard and active geo-replication. Whether it is learning different techniques to monitor and tune an Azure SQL Database or improving performance using in-memory technology, this book will enable you to make the most out of Azure SQL database features and functionality for data management solutions. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-versed with key aspects of an Azure SQL Database instance, such as migration, backup restorations, performance optimization, high availability, and disaster recovery.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Azure SQL Database Authentication Structure

Azure SQL Database will always have two different administrators if Azure AD authentication is used: the original SQL Server administrator (SQL authentication) and the Azure AD admin. The Azure AD administrator login can be a user or a group. All users in the Azure AD admin group will have administrative access to an Azure SQL server:

Figure 5.28: Azure SQL Database Authentication Structure

Note

An Azure administrator can either be a single user or a group. A user and a group administrator can't coexist.

Azure SQL Database Authentication Considerations

You must consider the following factors for Azure SQL Database authentication:

  • Create a dedicated Azure AD group as the Azure SQL Server administrator instead of creating an individual user administrator.
  • You can configure either an Azure AD group or a user as an Azure SQL Server admin.
  • bcp.exe can't connect to an Azure SQL database using Azure Active Directory authentication...