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Professional Azure SQL Database Administration

By : Ahmad Osama
Book Image

Professional Azure SQL Database Administration

By: Ahmad Osama

Overview of this book

As the cloud version of SQL Server, Azure SQL Database differs in key ways when it comes to management, maintenance, and administration. It’s important to know how to administer SQL Database to fully benefit from all of the features and functionality that it provides. This book addresses important aspects of an Azure SQL Database instance such as migration, backup restorations, pricing policies, security, scalability, monitoring, performance optimization, high availability, and disaster recovery. It is a complete guide for database administrators, and ideal for those who are planning to migrate from on premise SQL Server database to an Azure SQL Server database.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Professional Azure SQL Database Administration
Contributors
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Microsoft Azure SQL Database Primer
4
Restoring an Azure SQL Database
Index

Proactive Security


Azure SQL Database provides Auditing and Threat detection to proactively protect it from malicious attacks.

Auditing

Auditing tracks and records database events to an audit log in a given Azure Storage account. Auditing can help you to:

  • Maintain regulatory compliance

  • Understand database activity

  • Catch discrepancies or anomalies indicating a security violation

Auditing allows you to:

  • Define what database actions are to be audited

  • Find unusual activity or trends by using preconfigured reports and dashboards to understand and analyze the audit log

Auditing can be configured at the server-level and database-level. If auditing is configured at the server level, it'll automatically apply to all of the databases in the server. Auditing configured at the database will only apply to a particular database.

It's recommended to audit the server instead of auditing individual databases.

Configure Auditing for Azure SQL Server

In this section, we’ll configure auditing for the toyfactory...