What is up with the Azure dependency?

[lukecapizano]

<dependency> <groupId>com.microsoft.azure</groupId> <artifactId>azure-keyvault</artifactId> <version>0.9.3</version> </dependency>

My deployment ends up with dozens of extra .jars (almost 10MB worth) because of this. This manual download doesn't contain these dependencies... why is this in the .pom?

[ajlam]

@lukecapizano, the Azure Key Vault dependencies were removed and made optional in our 6.1.4 preview release with PR #146. The manual download you see on the MS Download Center is for an older version of the JDBC driver (version 6.0).

[lukecapizano]

@ajlam Oh, thanks for the explanation. Since the Azure Key Vault dependencies are optional, I'm assuming I can exclude the azure dependencies and still use all of the standard JDBC features available against a local SQL Server?

Gradle example:

dependencies {
    testCompile "junit:junit:4.12"
    compile("com.microsoft.sqlserver:mssql-jdbc:6.1.0.jre8") {
        exclude group: "com.microsoft.azure"
    }
}

[ajlam]

@lukecapizano "com.microsoft.azure" covers the Azure Key Vault and Azure Active Directory for Java dependencies. These dependencies are used in the following scenarios:

• Always Encrypted - encryption key gets stored in Azure Key Vault
• Azure AD authentication - authenticating to Azure SQL Database with Azure AD auth methods

If you're connecting to your local SQL Server, standard JDBC features should be unaffected when excluding that group.