Run as

In the Ultra Transcenders books

DBX-DEP

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

Terms in this definition

• IDENTITY

  A column property, written IDENTITY(seed, increment), that gives each new row the next number in a rising sequence. SCOPE_IDENTITY reports the latest value created in the current scope, and a rolled-back transaction still uses up the numbers it took.

• Job

  A sequence of steps executed together on one agent or runner, or on the server for agentless work. While running, each occupies one of your parallel jobs.

• Service principal

  The tenant-local instance of a managed identity or app registration, which users and Azure or directory roles are assigned to. Those from app registrations authenticate with a stored certificate or secret that needs rotating and can be copied, which suits code running outside Azure.

• Full control

  Gives every right over protected content, EXTRACT included, plus the ability to alter or strip the encryption. Owners and the Rights Management issuer always hold it.

Related terms

• Application routing add-on

  Managed NGINX ingress for AKS, deployed and run as an add-on, integrated with Azure DNS and with certificates held in Key Vault. Its NGINX version is supported only until the end of November 2026, after which the Gateway API version takes over.

• Auto compaction

  Delta Lake merges small files as soon as a write has succeeded, using the same cluster, and ignores files it has already compacted. History shows each run as an OPTIMIZE triggered automatically.

• Bicep linter

  bicepconfig.json decides how serious each rule is. The rules, which descend from the ARM template test toolkit, run as static analysis inside both the VS Code extension and Bicep's CLI.

• GitHub Actions Importer

  A GitHub CLI extension, run as gh actions-importer, for planning and carrying out a move to GitHub Actions from systems such as Azure Pipelines: it can audit, forecast, dry-run and migrate.

• High Availability VCF Automation Model

  VCF Automation run as three clustered nodes, so the application survives a node loss while vSphere HA looks after each appliance; bigger failures are recovered by restoring from backup.

• Multicloud

  Simultaneous use of several public cloud providers, each run as a separate environment. Hybrid cloud is a different model.

• Session configuration

  A .pssc file for Just Enough Administration describing a restricted PowerShell endpoint: who can connect, which role capabilities apply to each group, and which account commands run as.

• Triggered sync

  Set with pipeline_type="TRIGGERED", this cheaper alternative to Continuous is all that storage-optimized endpoints support. Delta Sync refreshes the index only when the UI, SDK or REST API kicks off a run, as nothing is scheduled automatically.