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Ahmad Osama
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Ahmad Osama works for Pitney Bowes Pvt. Ltd. as a technical architect and is a former Microsoft Data Platform MVP. In his day job, he works on developing and maintaining high performant, on-premises and cloud SQL Server OLTP environments as well as deployment and automating tasks using PowerShell. When not working, Ahmad blogs at DataPlatformLabs and can be found glued to his Xbox.
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Shashikant Shakya
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Shashikant Shakya

Shashikant Shakya is a passionate technologist with decades of experience in the sphere of databases. He works for Microsoft as a senior support engineer. In his day job, he works on Azure SQL Database, Azure Database for MySQL, and PostgreSQL. Apart from his work, he is a regular speaker at the SQLBangalore community group.
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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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Ahmad Osama

Ahmad Osama works for Pitney Bowes Pvt. Ltd. as a technical architect and is a former Microsoft Data Platform MVP. In his day job, he works on developing and maintaining high performant, on-premises and cloud SQL Server OLTP environments as well as deployment and automating tasks using PowerShell. When not working, Ahmad blogs at DataPlatformLabs and can be found glued to his Xbox.
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Shashikant Shakya

Shashikant Shakya is a passionate technologist with decades of experience in the sphere of databases. He works for Microsoft as a senior support engineer. In his day job, he works on Azure SQL Database, Azure Database for MySQL, and PostgreSQL. Apart from his work, he is a regular speaker at the SQLBangalore community group.
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