AAD user creation on behalf AAD Service Principal with Azure SQL DB

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An interesting improvement was announced by the SQL AAD team on Monday 27th July 2020 and concerns the support for Azure AD user creation on behalf of Azure AD Applications for Azure SQL as mentioned to this Microsoft blog post.

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Configuring Integrated Windows Authentication with SSRS and SQL DB Azure

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Today let’s talk about Cloud and Azure. My new job gives me now the opportunity to work in a hybrid environment with some components hosted in a cloud including SQL Azure Databases. To get straight to the point, PaaS databases are different beasts and I my confirm DBA role is shifting to another dimension. The focus is more on providing higher value in the architecture design and tuning because resources are a big concern, at least in a different order of magnitude, because they are now treated as operational expenses (OpEx). Entering now in a World of code as infrastructure, provisioning such service has become an easy game and can be automated through Cloud provider APIs and specialized tools. My colleagues already did a lot of good jobs on this topic.

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