Example demonstrating how managed identity interacts with an Azure SQL database. Note: While this sample uses local accounts I urge you to consider using an oauth provider/Azure AD as the user store ...

A customer was concerned about putting account credentials for their Azure SQL DBs and Synapse on the VMs that process data. While there are a number of solutions, one potential is to enable a Managed ...

Learn how to generate surrogate keys in SQL using identity columns, as well as their benefits and drawbacks, and some other options and factors to consider. Sign in to view more content ...

Hello everyone.<BR><BR>I Have an application that creates some form of log in a SQL table that has an identity column.<BR><BR>An auditor checked these logs and found some gaps in the identity ...

Identity columns have several advantages as surrogate keys in SQL. First, they are easy to create and maintain. You just need to specify the column as IDENTITY and the starting value and increment.