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For Read-Only routing, rather than explicitly using "ApplicationIntent=ReadOnly" into our application connection string or for individual users to specify it in additional properties, can this be configured while creating a login?

For Example: Any user trying to connect to the instance should be routed to read-only replica, even if they don not provide "ApplicationIntent=ReadOnly" in their connection string.

Is this possible?

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No. But you can disable their logins on the instance that normally hosts the primary replica and have them connect directly to an instance that normally hosts a read-only replica.

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  • Thanks for your reply @David By what you say does it mean, we might have access to the secondary read-only replica is it? If it is so we can create the logins in read-only replica rather than the primary server? My understanding was we cannot access them, but, whatever logins we create in primary server only gets replicated in the read-only copy.
    – Venkat
    Nov 4, 2020 at 14:29
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    Logins are instance-level principals, and so are not replicated by the AG. Database Users are replicated.
    – David Browne - Microsoft
    Nov 4, 2020 at 14:32
  • I do replicate the logins manually for the fail over DR instance, but I believe as per the below doc, by default, we have read-only instance/replicas which the connections hit when we provide "ApplicationIntent=ReadOnly". That is what I was not sure if we can make it a default setting learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/database/…
    – Venkat
    Nov 4, 2020 at 14:46
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    No. There's no way to force ReadIntent for particular users.
    – David Browne - Microsoft
    Nov 4, 2020 at 15:47
  • Thanks for your inputs
    – Venkat
    Nov 4, 2020 at 17:14

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