Microsoft Announces Cloud Data Auditing Made Easy with Azure SQL Data Warehouse

by Dann Anthony Maurno, Assistant Editor
published October 9, 2015

Microsoft has announced on its Azure blog that you can now use database auditing with Azure SQL Data Warehouse. Matt Usher, senior program manager of SQL Engineering calls this "A key security enhancement that removes barriers from businesses wanting to manage their data warehouse in the cloud."

Introduced with Azure SQL Database, database auditing increases an organization's ability to track events and changes that occur within a database (e.g., updates to and queries against the data). Usher promises that, using a simple and intuitive configuration interface, "You can now have auditing up and running on your database within minutes."

Why do you need auditing?

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About Dann Anthony Maurno

Dann Anthony Maurno is a seasoned business journalist who began his career as International Marketing Manager with Lilly Software, then moved on as a freelancer to write for such prestigious clients as CFO Magazine; Compliance Week;Manufacturing Business Technology; Decision Resources, Inc.; The Economist Intelligence Unit; and corporate clients such as Iron Mountain, Microsoft and SAP. He is the co-author of Thin Air: How Wireless Technology Supports Lean Initiatives(CRC/Productivity Press, 2010).

Dann can be reached at dmaurno@guidepointmedia.com.

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