Table options

In the Ultra Transcenders books

DP-750

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

Terms in this definition

• Set

  Secret permission in Key Vault for writing secrets; some older material refers to it as Create.

• General-purpose v1

  The older storage account kind (Storage), which lacks access tiers, Archive and premium file shares and retires on 13 October 2026. Converting to ZRS requires first upgrading to GPv2, a one-way change.

• Table properties

  Key-value metadata on tables and views, case-sensitive, from users or the system. Add them via TBLPROPERTIES or ALTER TABLE ... SET TBLPROPERTIES, remove them via UNSET TBLPROPERTIES; Delta reads some, like delta.logRetentionDuration, as configuration.

Related terms

• Allowed storage account SKUs

  A built-in Azure Policy that limits the SKUs people may pick for a new storage account. It keeps redundancy and spending in check when a workload has no need for the pricier options.

• Analytics pane

  A tab beside the formatting options in the Visualizations pane for adding extras such as dynamic reference lines, error bars, forecasting and anomaly detection. Which of these appear varies with the kind of visual selected.

• Automatic index management

  Lets the database add and remove indexes by itself to match the workload, through the CREATE_INDEX and DROP_INDEX automatic tuning options. You'll only find it in SQL database in Fabric and Azure SQL Database.

• Automatic plan correction

  Watches for queries whose plans have regressed and forces the most recent plan that worked well; if that forced plan doesn't help, the forcing is removed. It is one of the automatic tuning options.

• az container create

  Azure CLI command that deploys a container group to Azure Container Instances. Its options cover the image, exposed ports, a VNet subnet, the restart policy, and registry access through credentials or --acr-identity.

• Azure Architecture Center

  Microsoft's online library of Azure architecture: reference designs, solution ideas and design guides, all on Microsoft Learn. It's also where you'll find the deployment options for landing zones and accelerators for workload landing zones.

• Azure Face service

  Service within Azure Vision that detects faces, verifies one face against another and identifies a face among many. Access is limited, and among the Vision options it alone can say whose face it is.

• Built-in evaluators

  Ready-made scorers in Foundry covering safety, quality, similarity, RAG and agent behaviour, with OpenAI graders and custom options alongside; they report how outputs perform but never alter settings or retrain anything.