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Azure SQL Database firewalls

Azure SQL Database firewalls - SQL Server Tutorial

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Azure SQL Database firewalls

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- [Instructor] If you're using Microsoft's Azure SQL database, one of the kind of unique aspects of this is that you have a public endpoint, which means your database is technically accessible over the internet. Except that, by default, it's not accessible to anybody 'cause what SQL database has in place is a firewall that doesn't allow users to connect until a firewall rule is put in place and that gives us the protection. A lot of customers can be freaked out by that concept, but it's very secure because it's locked down to a specific IP address or IP range of your company's corporate network, typically. We're gonna talk about some pitfalls of things I've seen in the wild that aren't good. But that's how it's supposed to be done. Additionally, you can only allow connections to come from a specific virtual network within Azure. And that's another option you have. So if you just want a specific set of applications in Azure to have access, you can do that by tying the database to the…

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