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‎azure-sql/database/connect-github-actions-sql-db.md

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author: juliakm
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ms.reviewer: wiassaf, mathoma
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ms.date: 12/13/2023
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ms.date: 02/11/2025
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ms.topic: quickstart
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4. Rename your workflow `SQL for GitHub Actions` and add the checkout and login actions. These actions check out your site code and authenticate with Azure using the `AZURE_CREDENTIALS` GitHub secret you created earlier.
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# [OpenID Connect](#tab/openid)
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```yaml
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name: SQL for GitHub Actions
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push:
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branches: [ main ]
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pull_request:
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branches: [ main ]
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jobs:
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build:
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runs-on: windows-latest
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steps:
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- uses: actions/checkout@v1
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- uses: azure/login@v2
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with:
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client-id: ${{ secrets.AZURE_CLIENT_ID }}
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tenant-id: ${{ secrets.AZURE_TENANT_ID }}
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subscription-id: ${{ secrets.AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID }}
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```
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# [Service principal](#tab/userlevel)
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---
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5. Use the Azure SQL Deploy action to connect to your SQL instance. You should have a dacpac package (`Database.dacpac`) at the root level of your repository. Use the `AZURE_SQL_CONNECTION_STRING` GitHub secret you created earlier.
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```yaml
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connection-string: ${{ secrets.AZURE_SQL_CONNECTION_STRING }}
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action: 'Publish'
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```
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6. Complete your workflow by adding an action to logout of Azure. Here's the completed workflow. The file appears in the `.github/workflows` folder of your repository.
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```
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# Azure logout
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‎azure-sql/database/doc-changes-updates-release-notes-whats-new.md

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| **Availability metric**| Availability is now a metric in the Azure Monitor metrics. Driven by a variety of user connection failures, you can [monitor and configure alerts on Azure SQL Database Availability](monitoring-metrics-alerts.md#availability-metric). |
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| **Copilot skills in Azure SQL Database** | Microsoft Copilot skills in Azure SQL Database include two Azure portal experiences: [Natural language to SQL](../copilot/query-editor-natural-language-to-sql-copilot.md) within the [Azure portal query editor](query-editor.md), and [Azure Copilot integration](../copilot/copilot-azure-sql-overview.md#microsoft-copilot-in-azure-enhanced-scenarios). |
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| **Database watcher for Azure SQL** |[Database watcher](../database-watcher-overview.md) is a managed monitoring solution for database services in the Azure SQL family. Database watcher collects in-depth workload monitoring data to give you a detailed view of database performance, configuration, and health. Learn more about [database watcher](https://aka.ms/dbwatcher-preview-announcement). |
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| **Degrees of Parallelism (DOP) feedback** | [DOP Feedback](/sql/relational-databases/performance/intelligent-query-processing-degree-parallelism-feedback) is currently available as a limited preview. For more information and how to apply for the preview, see [Announcing Degree of Parallelism Feedback Limited Preview](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-sql-blog/announcing-degree-of-parallelism-feedback-limited-preview/ba-p/3806924). |
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| **Degrees of Parallelism (DOP) feedback** | [DOP Feedback](/sql/relational-databases/performance/intelligent-query-processing-degree-parallelism-feedback?view=azuresqldb-current&preserve-view=true) is currently available as a limited preview. For more information and how to apply for the preview, see [Announcing Degree of Parallelism Feedback Limited Preview](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-sql-blog/announcing-degree-of-parallelism-feedback-limited-preview/ba-p/3806924). |
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| **Elastic queries** | The [elastic queries](elastic-query-overview.md) feature allows for cross-database queries in Azure SQL Database. |
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| **Microsoft Entra server principals** | The ability to [create server principals (logins) for Microsoft Entra identities](authentication-azure-ad-logins.md) in Azure SQL Database is in preview. |
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| **Network Security Perimeter** | [Azure Network Security Perimeter](network-security-perimeter.md) allows organizations to define a logical network isolation boundary for PaaS resources (for example, Azure Storage and SQL Database) that are deployed outside your organization's virtual networks. It restricts public network access to PaaS resources outside of the perimeter, and access can be exempted by using explicit access rules for public inbound and outbound. |
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| **Query editor in the Azure portal** | The [query editor in the Azure portal](query-editor.md) allows you to run queries against your Azure SQL Database directly from a web browser. |
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| **UNISTR (Transact-SQL)** | Azure SQL Database now supports the `UNISTR` T-SQL syntax for Unicode string literals. For more information, see [UNISTR (Transact-SQL)](/sql/t-sql/functions/unistr-transact-sql).|
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| **Free Azure SQL Database** | January 2025 | Use [Azure SQL Database for free](free-offer.md), for the life of your subscription. This free offer provides up to ten free General Purpose databases, each with 100,000 vCore seconds of compute, every month. For more information, see [Blog: General availability of Azure SQL Database free offer](https://aka.ms/azuresqlfreedb).|
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