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Azure SQL Database connectivity, security, transient fault handling, migrations, and operational behavior.
Practice items tagged with Azure SQL.
Uses Query Store and deployment evidence to diagnose and safely mitigate a concrete Azure SQL plan regression.
Diagnose a .NET API that cannot connect to Azure SQL using managed identity.
Decide whether Azure SQL errors are transient platform faults or a real application/query regression.
Explains transient database errors, retry strategy, EF Core execution strategy, idempotency, timeouts, and avoiding retry storms.
Covers using managed identity and Microsoft Entra authentication for Azure SQL access from a .NET API.
Explains safe migration strategy for Azure-hosted .NET APIs, including expand-contract changes, locking risk, rollback, and deployment order.
Preparation paths where this taxonomy appears in the track scope.
App Service, identity, secrets, deployments, observability, and background work.
A focused Azure track for .NET backend and full-stack candidates who need to explain production hosting, safe releases, App Service behavior, managed identity, Key Vault, Azure SQL, Application Insights, and queue-based work.
Incidents, diagnosis, mitigation, and recovery for Azure-hosted .NET systems.
A focused incident-practice track for .NET backend and full-stack candidates who need to debug App Service releases, slot swaps, identity failures, Key Vault references, Azure SQL issues, missing telemetry, and queue-backed background processing problems.