| English | Italian |
| principal database | database principale (In database mirroring, a read-write database whose transaction log is continuously sent to the mirror server, which restores the log to the mirror database) |
| principal server | server principale (In database mirroring, the partner whose database is currently the principal database) |
| security principal | entità di sicurezza (In Windows-based computers, an account (such as a user, security group, device, or computer) that can be granted or denied access to resources) |
| security principal name | nome dell'entità di protezione (A name that uniquely identifies a user, group, or computer within a single domain. This name is not guaranteed to be unique across domains) |
| server-level principal | entità di livello server (An account that is similar to the sa login in SQL Server. During the provisioning process, SQL Azure creates a login for you that is the server-level principal of your SQL Azure server. The SQL Azure server-level principal account has permission to manage all server-level and database-level security) |
| service principal | entità servizio (An entity that represents a service at the key distribution center (KDC). A service principal generally does not correspond to a human user of the system, but rather to an automated service providing a resource, such as a file server) |
| service principal name | nome dell'entità servizio (The name by which a client uniquely identifies an instance of a service. It is usually built from the DNS name of the host. The SPN is used in the process of mutual authentication between the client and the server hosting a particular service) |
| user principal name | nome dell'entità utente |
| user principal name suffix | suffisso del nome dell'entità utente |
