LEAST

In the Ultra Transcenders books

DP-600

Each book explains LEAST in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.

Terms in this definition

• T-SQL

  The dialect of SQL that Microsoft uses for Azure SQL and SQL Server. Azure Monitor logs are queried with KQL instead.

• Fabric Warehouse

  A relational data warehouse in the classic style, offered as a Fabric item, that supports T-SQL fully, transactions included.

• Serverless

  Compute tier for single Azure SQL databases that scales automatically, pauses when idle and charges by the second. It is offered in General Purpose and Hyperscale, not Business Critical, and reserved capacity does not apply.

Related terms

• Actor

  Anyone or anything, whether a person, an organisation or a system, that fills at least one role and initiates or participates in activities. It may sit within the organisation or outside it.

• Auto-delete on idle

  Once a Service Bus queue, topic or subscription has gone unused for a chosen period (five minutes at the very least), this setting removes it automatically.

• Availability zones

  Separate physical datacentre locations inside one region. Placing VMs in at least two of them earns a 99.99% SLA.

• Azure DNS Private Resolver

  Managed resolver inside a VNet that removes the need for DNS server VMs in hybrid setups. Its inbound and outbound endpoints each need their own subnet of at least /28 delegated to Microsoft.Network/dnsResolvers, and it can link only to a VNet in the same region.

• Billing profile

  A scope within a Microsoft Customer Agreement, sitting beneath the billing account, that generates a separate monthly invoice paid by its own payment method. Each one holds at least one invoice section.

• Change feed processor

  Azure Cosmos DB SDK library for consuming change feeds. Its parts are the container being watched, a container holding leases, compute instances with unique names and a delegate; leases are shared out between instances and changes arrive at least once.

• Concern

  Something about a system, such as its security, reliability or performance, that is important to at least one stakeholder.

• Container Apps workload profiles

  The default Container Apps environment type, offering Consumption and Dedicated profiles on a subnet of at least /27; unlike the legacy Consumption-only type (/23), it supports UDRs, private endpoints and NAT Gateway egress.