Contents
- 1 What is difference between Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL managed instance?
- 2 How do I add Azure Active Directory users to Azure SQL Database?
- 3 What should you use to evaluate your company’s Azure environment?
- 4 How to create SQL managed instance security in azure ad server?
- 5 How to create contained users in Azure AD?
What is difference between Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL managed instance?
The most significant difference from SQL Database and SQL Managed Instance is that SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines allows full control over the database engine. Optimized for migrating existing applications to Azure or extending existing on-premises applications to the cloud in hybrid deployments.
How do I log into Azure managed instance?
Log into your managed instance using a sysadmin account using SQL Server Management Studio. In Object Explorer, right-click the server and choose New Query. Create a new connection to the managed instance with the user that has been added to the db_datareader role.
How do I add Azure Active Directory users to Azure SQL Database?
Connect to your Azure SQL Database server with SSMS as an admin and choose the database you want to add a user to in the dropdown. Add Azure Active Directory user ‘[email protected]’ then add it to the db_datareader and db_datawriter roles.
Which of the authentication method is supported for the Azure SQL Database?
Azure AD supports token-based authentication for applications connecting to SQL Database and SQL Managed Instance.
What should you use to evaluate your company’s Azure environment?
What should you use to evaluate whether your company’s Azure environment meets regulatory requirements?
- the Knowledge Center website.
- the Advisor blade from the Azure portal.
- Compliance Manager from the Security Trust Portal.
- the Security Center blade from the Azure portal.
Which indexes can be scannable?
Hash indexes also became scannable in parallel in SQL Server 2016. Nonclustered indexes also became scannable in parallel in SQL Server 2016. Columnstore indexes have been scannable in parallel since their inception in SQL Server 2014.
How to create SQL managed instance security in azure ad server?
For more information, see Tutorial: SQL Managed Instance security in Azure SQL Database using Azure AD server principals (logins). use master go — Create login for AAD user [[email protected]] create login [[email protected]] from external provider go — Create login for the Azure AD group [migration].
Why do I need Azure AD for SQL?
This feature enables you to create sign-ins for Azure AD users and groups in the master database for managed instance as well as Azure AD users and groups with sign-ins created for individual databases. The Azure AD sign-ins can be granted with server level permissions for managed instance enabling features available only for SQL logins.
How to create contained users in Azure AD?
To create contained users mapped to Azure AD identities, you must be logged in using an Azure AD account that is an administrator in the database in Azure SQL Database. In SQL Managed Instance, a SQL login with sysadmin permissions can also create an Azure AD login or user.
How to create user accounts in SQL managed instance?
With SQL Managed Instance supporting Azure AD server principals, you can create user accounts to authenticate to the SQL Managed Instance without requiring database users to be created as a contained database user.