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Setting Azure AD authentication to Azure SQL Database

So far, we have been using SQL authentication to connect to Azure SQL Database, as we did in the previous chapter via SQL Server Management Studio.

Using Azure AD will provide centralized administration for database users' identities.

Doing so is very straightforward; you can follow the following steps to do so:

Navigate to the Azure SQL Server and scroll down to Active Directory admin, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 5.10: Azure AD admins for the Azure SQL Server

Click on Set admin and a new blade will pop up, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 5.11: Azure AD ...

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