April 2017

Blob Auditing for Azure SQL Database

In February 2017, Microsoft announced the general availability of Blob Auditing for Azure SQL Database. While auditing features were available before in Azure, this is a huge leap forward, especially in having more granular control over what audit records are captured. Before Blob Auditing, there was Table Auditing. This is something I like to equate to the C2 auditing feature of SQL Server. It’s only configurable options were ON or OFF. In reality, Table Auditing has a few more controls than that, but you get the idea. There was no way to audit actions against one specific table. Blob Auditing...

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AzureRM Module Version

When working with the AzureRM PowerShell module, remember the module is constantly being updated to take advantage of new features added to Azure. To check the version of the AzureRM module currently installed on your system, use the following command. The screenshot below shows I am running version 1.4.0 and the output of Get-AzureRmSqlDatabaseAuditingPolicy command-let. Next, I install the latest AzureRM module. After the install is complete, I rerun the same commands. The screenshot below shows that I am now running version 3.8.0 followed by the same Get-AzureRmSqlDatabaseAuditingPolicy command-let. Notice the difference in the output? There are several differences, but in...

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