Security considerations

SQL Tran is deployed on Microsoft Azure in customer's tenant to ensure that customer has full control over their resources and the way databases are accessed.

While this is great for security (Spectral Core has no access to the code, databases, or even the SQL Tran resources), it comes at a slight cost of complication when you want to upgrade SQL Tran to get the latest improvements and fixes. To upgrade, you need to export your projects to encrypted file, publish a brand new instance of SQL Tran, import from encrypted file, then delete the old instance. There need to be communication open to our licensing server as we need to report usage and number of users to our billing service. Pricing is based on usage and number of users so there is no going around that requirement. The following is the only information sent to the licensing server:

• Number of objects, grouped by complexity. Changes are reported when a project is unlocked and when scripts are added (or updated) to existing project.

• Maximum number of users in the current month, reported every hour.