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SQL read scale-out
Microsoft Learn describes SQL read scale-out as a feature that routes read-only workloads to read-only replicas instead of the primary read-write replica. It is available for Premium, Business Critical, and certain Hyperscale configurations, using ApplicationIntent=ReadOnly to separate reporting or analytics reads from writes.
Azure SQL performance and availability
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure SQL read scale-out, read-only replica routing, ApplicationIntent ReadOnly, SQL Database read replicas
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Databases
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Azure SQL Business Critical tier
Azure SQL Business Critical tier is a vCore service tier for OLTP workloads that need high transaction rates, low-latency I/O, and high resilience through isolated replicas.
Azure SQL Database
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure SQL Business Critical tier, Business Critical tier, BusinessCritical, Premium-like vCore tier, SQL Business Critical
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Azure SQL automatic tuning
Azure SQL automatic tuning monitors query performance and can apply tuning actions such as plan correction and index recommendations.
Azure SQL Database
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure SQL automatic tuning, Azure SQL tuning recommendations, SQL automatic tuning, automatic tuning
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Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Database is a fully managed relational database service in Azure that provides SQL Server-compatible engines as single databases, elastic pools, and serverless or provisioned compute choices. Microsoft Learn presents it as platform as a service with built-in availability, backups, patching, scaling, and security integration.
Database
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure SQL DB, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL pooled database, Azure SQL single database, SQL Database
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Azure SQL elastic pool
Azure SQL elastic pool lets multiple Azure SQL databases on one logical server share a set of resources at a set price for variable usage patterns.
Azure SQL Database
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure SQL elastic pool, SQL elastic pool, eDTU pool, elastic pool, pooled databases
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Azure SQL Query Store
Find the exact query plan regression that appeared after an application deployment or database compatibility-level change.; Compare normal and incident windows before deciding whether a SKU scale-up is justified.
Azure SQL Database
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: Azure SQL Query Store
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Azure SQL service objective
An Azure SQL service objective is the named performance level or SKU selected for an Azure SQL Database or elastic pool, defining resource limits, capabilities, and price within the chosen purchasing model.
Azure SQL Database
intermediate
4 commands
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Databases
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Azure SQL vCore model
The Azure SQL vCore purchasing model lets customers independently choose compute, storage, service tier, and hardware configuration for Azure SQL Database workloads.
Azure SQL Database
intermediate
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Databases
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Azure SQL zone redundancy
Azure SQL zone redundancy places database replicas or storage across multiple availability zones in a supported region to improve resilience against datacenter-level failures.
Azure SQL Database
intermediate
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Azure SQL tempdb
Azure SQL tempdb refers to the SQL engine temporary workspace used for temporary tables, table variables, internal worktables, sorting, version store activity, and other transient database operations.
Azure SQL Database
intermediate
3 commands
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Azure SQL logical server
An Azure SQL logical server is a logical administrative construct for Azure SQL Database and related SQL resources. Microsoft Learn describes it as the central point for managing a collection of databases, including logins, firewall rules, auditing, threat detection policies, and failover groups.
Azure SQL Database
fundamentals
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SQL performance recommendation
Microsoft Learn describes Azure SQL performance recommendations as portal guidance generated from database workload analysis. Recommendations identify changes such as creating indexes, dropping duplicate indexes, or adjusting schema patterns that could improve performance or correct workload-specific issues, and administrators can review, apply, or script actions.
Azure SQL performance tuning
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure SQL performance recommendation, Database advisor recommendation, SQL tuning recommendation, Azure SQL advisor recommendation
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Databases
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Azure SQL active geo-replication
Azure SQL active geo-replication creates readable secondary databases in other regions for database-level disaster recovery and failover.
Azure SQL Database
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure SQL active geo-replication, SQL geo-replication, active geo-replication, geo-secondary database
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Azure SQL auditing
Azure SQL auditing tracks database events and writes audit logs to supported destinations such as storage, Log Analytics, or Event Hubs.
Azure SQL Database
fundamentals
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Aliases: Azure SQL audit logs, Azure SQL auditing, SQL auditing, database auditing
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Azure SQL automated backup
Azure SQL automated backup automatically protects databases and supports point-in-time restore using service-managed backup chains.
Azure SQL Database
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure SQL automated backup, Azure SQL automatic backups, SQL automated backups, point-in-time restore backups
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Databases
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Azure SQL database copy
Azure SQL database copy creates a transactionally consistent copy of an Azure SQL Database using portal, PowerShell, Azure CLI, or Transact-SQL.
Azure SQL Database
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure SQL copy, Azure SQL database copy, CREATE DATABASE AS COPY OF, SQL database copy, database copy
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Azure SQL Database DTU model
Azure SQL Database DTU model is a purchasing model that bundles compute, storage, and I/O resources into Database Transaction Units for Basic, Standard, and Premium tiers.
Azure SQL Database
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure SQL Database DTU model, DTU model, DTU-based purchasing model, Database Transaction Unit, eDTU
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Azure SQL elastic job
Azure SQL elastic jobs schedule and run Transact-SQL scripts across one or many Azure SQL databases, including target groups across servers, pools, and subscriptions.
Azure SQL Database
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure Elastic Jobs, Azure SQL elastic job, SQL elastic job agent, elastic job agent, elastic jobs
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Azure SQL failover group
Provide a stable listener endpoint for applications that must survive an Azure SQL regional failover.; Coordinate failover for several related user databases instead of managing each geo-replica separately.
Azure SQL Database
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure SQL failover group, SQL failover group, auto-failover group, failover group, geo-failover group
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Azure SQL General Purpose tier
Azure SQL General Purpose tier is a vCore service tier for common workloads that need balanced compute and storage at budget-oriented pricing.
Azure SQL Database
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure SQL General Purpose tier, GP tier, General Purpose tier, GeneralPurpose, SQL General Purpose
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Azure SQL geo-restore
Azure SQL geo-restore uses geo-replicated backups to restore a database to any logical server in any Azure region when primary-region access is unavailable.
Azure SQL Database
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure SQL geo-restore, SQL geo restore, geo-replicated backup restore, geo-restore, regional backup restore
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Azure SQL hyperscale
Azure SQL Database Hyperscale is a service tier built for very large databases, fast storage scaling, rapid backups and restores, and high throughput. Microsoft Learn describes its distinct architecture, including separated compute and storage, page servers, log service, and optional replicas.
Azure SQL Database
fundamentals
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Azure SQL ledger
A database capability or setting in Azure SQL Database that helps teams store, query, scale, secure, and recover application data with clearer ownership, safety, and operational context.
Azure SQL Database
fundamentals
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Azure SQL long-term retention
A database capability or setting in Azure SQL Database that helps teams store, query, scale, secure, and recover application data with clearer ownership, safety, and operational context.
Azure SQL Database
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Azure SQL maintenance window
A database capability or setting in Azure SQL Database that helps teams store, query, scale, secure, and recover application data with clearer ownership, safety, and operational context.
Azure SQL Database
fundamentals
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Azure SQL Microsoft Entra authentication
A database capability or setting in Azure SQL Database that helps teams store, query, scale, secure, and recover application data with clearer ownership, safety, and operational context.
Azure SQL Database
fundamentals
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Azure SQL point-in-time restore
A database capability or setting in Azure SQL Database that helps teams store, query, scale, secure, and recover application data with clearer ownership, safety, and operational context.
Azure SQL Database
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Azure SQL serverless compute
Run development, test, training, or demo databases that need full SQL behavior but sit idle outside work hours.; Support tenant databases with sporadic activity where provisioned compute would waste budget for long idle
Azure SQL Database
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure SQL serverless compute
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Azure SQL transparent data encryption
Azure SQL Transparent Data Encryption helps protect Azure SQL Database data, log files, and backups at rest by encrypting and decrypting database pages without requiring application changes.
Azure SQL Database
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Azure SQL vulnerability assessment
Azure SQL vulnerability assessment is a Defender for Cloud capability that scans Azure SQL databases for security misconfigurations, risky settings, and findings that can be reviewed and remediated.
Azure SQL Database
intermediate
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Azure SQL firewall rule
An Azure SQL firewall rule is an allow-list entry for public network access to Azure SQL Database. It says which client IP address or range may connect to a logical server or a specific database. It does not replace identity, passwords, Microsoft Entra authentication, or private networking; it only decides whether the network connection is.
Azure SQL Database
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure SQL firewall rule, IP firewall rule, SQL firewall rule, database-level firewall rule, server-level firewall rule
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Azure SQL private endpoint
A database capability or setting in Azure SQL Database that helps teams store, query, scale, secure, and recover application data with clearer ownership, safety, and operational context.
Azure SQL Database
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure SQL private endpoint, azure-sql-private-endpoint, azure-sql-database, azure-sql-logical-server, private-endpoint, private-dns-zone, vnet-peering, managed-identity, app-service-vnet-integration, azure-sql-firewall-rule, service-endpoint
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SQL Managed Instance service tier
Microsoft Learn describes SQL Managed Instance service tiers as purchasing-model choices, such as General Purpose, Next-gen General Purpose, and Business Critical, that define architecture, storage limits, availability behavior, performance characteristics, and billing for a managed instance. Review it using workload evidence. for production database workloads.
SQL Managed Instance
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: SQL MI service tier, Azure SQL MI tier, managed instance tier, SQL Managed Instance SKU tier
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Analytics
premium
Azure Synapse Analytics
Azure Synapse Analytics is Microsoft’s integrated analytics service for enterprise data warehousing, big data, data integration, and exploratory analytics.
Synapse Analytics
intermediate
6 commands
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Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server
A fully managed Azure database service for MySQL workloads with configurable compute, storage, backups, networking, maintenance, and high availability options.
Managed MySQL
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: MySQL Flexible Server
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Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server
A fully managed Azure PostgreSQL service with configurable compute, storage, backups, networking, maintenance, extensions, and high availability options.
Managed PostgreSQL
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: PostgreSQL Flexible Server
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Storage
premium
Azure Elastic SAN
A cloud-native Azure storage area network service that provides scalable, cost-effective, high-performance block storage volumes for compute workloads.
Block storage
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Elastic SAN
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Serverless SQL database
A serverless SQL database is an Azure SQL Database single database configured with the serverless compute model. It automatically scales compute within configured limits, can auto-pause in supported tiers, resumes on activity, and keeps the managed SQL Database platform features such as backups, patching, monitoring, and security.
Azure SQL Database
fundamentals
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Analytics
learning-path-anchor
Synapse SQL CETAS
Synapse SQL CETAS means CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE AS SELECT. It creates external table metadata and exports the result of a T-SQL SELECT statement in parallel to files in Azure Storage or Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 for later SQL or lake consumption.
Synapse Analytics
fundamentals
6 commands
Aliases: CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE AS SELECT, CETAS, Synapse CETAS, serverless SQL CETAS
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Analytics
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Synapse SQL external table
A Synapse SQL external table is database metadata that lets Synapse SQL query files stored outside the database, usually in Azure Storage or ADLS Gen2. It references an external data source, file format, and file location for governed SQL analytics.
Synapse Analytics
fundamentals
6 commands
Aliases: external table in Synapse, Synapse external table, SQL external table, external table over lake files
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Analytics
learning-path-anchor
Synapse SQL on-demand
Synapse SQL on-demand is the serverless SQL pool model in Azure Synapse Analytics. It lets teams run T-SQL queries over data in the lake without provisioning dedicated warehouse capacity, storing only metadata objects while using external data sources, views, functions, and security objects.
Synapse Analytics
fundamentals
6 commands
Aliases: SQL on-demand, Synapse serverless SQL, serverless SQL in Synapse, built-in serverless SQL pool
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Monitoring and Observability
premium
Availability result
Availability result is the recorded outcome of an Application Insights availability test run, including whether the probe succeeded, how long it took, and where it ran. In Azure, teams encounter it when teams query Azure Monitor Logs after a synthetic web test reports failures, slow responses, or regional differences. The useful question is what behavior
Availability
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: AppAvailabilityResults, availability test result, Application Insights availability result
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Compute
premium
Availability set
Availability set is a placement group for Azure virtual machines that spreads instances across separate fault and update domains inside one datacenter. In Azure, teams encounter it when architects deploy two or more classic VM instances for an application tier that still needs datacenter-level hardware separation. The useful question is what behavior it proves, who
Availability
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: VM availability set, fault domain set, update domain set
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Monitoring and Observability
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Availability test
Availability test is an outside-in monitor that repeatedly calls a public HTTP or HTTPS endpoint and records whether it responded quickly enough. In Azure, teams encounter it when product teams need synthetic checks for websites, APIs, or critical external dependencies before users report an outage. The useful question is what behavior it proves, who owns
Availability
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Application Insights availability test, web test, standard test, synthetic test
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Compute
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Availability zone
Availability zone is a physically separate zone inside an Azure region with independent datacenter infrastructure such as power, cooling, and networking. In Azure, teams encounter it when architects choose whether a workload should pin resources to one zone or spread service instances across multiple zones. The useful question is what behavior it proves, who owns
Availability
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: Azure availability zone, zone, zone-redundant deployment, zonal deployment
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AI and Machine Learning
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Azure AI Search data source
Azure AI Search data source is the connection definition an Azure AI Search indexer uses to read content from a supported external data store.
AI platform and search
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Search data source, SearchIndexerDataSourceConnection, data source connection, indexer data source, search data source connection
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Databases
premium
Azure Cache for Redis
A managed in-memory data store based on Redis that improves application performance by caching frequently accessed data close to workloads.
Cache
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: Azure Redis Cache, Redis cache, managed Redis cache
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Storage
premium
Azure Container Storage
A cloud-based volume management, deployment, and orchestration service built natively for containers and integrated with Kubernetes persistent volumes.
Container storage
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: ACS for containers
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Databases
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Azure Cosmos DB
Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed database service for NoSQL, relational, and vector workloads. It supports global distribution, elastic scale, multiple APIs, request-unit capacity, backup, and high availability so modern applications can store and query data without operating database servers.
Azure Cosmos DB
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: Azure Cosmos DB, Cosmos DB, Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL, Cosmos database, global NoSQL database, request-unit database
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Analytics
learning-path-anchor
Synapse SQL script
A Synapse SQL script is a saved T-SQL authoring artifact in Synapse Studio. Users create or import scripts in the Develop hub, connect them to a dedicated or serverless SQL pool, run queries, review tabular results, export output, and organize scripts into folders.
Synapse Analytics
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: SQL script in Synapse, Synapse Studio SQL script, T-SQL script artifact, Synapse query script
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