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14. Auditing Azure SQL Managed Instance

Josephine Bush1  
(1)
Boulder, CO, USA
 

This chapter will show you how to audit your Azure SQL Managed Instance. In some cases, it’s similar to SQL Server auditing, and in other cases, it’s different.

Let’s start with a high-level comparison of Azure auditing vs. SQL Server auditing.

Read earlier chapters of this book for more guidance on SQL Server Audit and extended events on a VM.
Table 14-1

SQL Server and Azure SQL auditing comparisons

Cloud solution

SQL Server Audit

Extended Events

Auditing differences

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