Examples of some connection errors for Azure Active Directory Authentication
First published on MSDN on Sep 28, 2015 Mirek Sztajno Last updated on 09/28/15 Examples of some connection errors for Azure Active Directory Authentication with Azure SQL DB V12 (*) Please note that this table does not represent a complete sample …
Creating Custom Key Store Providers for Always Encrypted (Azure Key Vault Example)
First published on MSDN on Sep 25, 2015 Updates: The syntax for column master keys have been updated. Please refer to http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlsecurity/archive/2015/10/28/new-enhancements-in-always-encrypted.aspx for details on what is new in Always …
Azure Active Directory Authentication – troubleshooting potential connectivity issues
First published on MSDN on Sep 16, 2015 To troubleshoot potential connectivity issues for Azure AD authentication feature available for public preview (see https://azure.microsoft.com/documentation/articles/sql-database-aad-authentication/ ), the « User …
Recommendations for using Cell Level Encryption in Azure SQL Database
First published on MSDN on May 12, 2015 Update: Fixed an error on the sample code. When we introduced Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) to Azure SQL Database, we also introduced Cell-Level Encryption (CLE, also known as SQL Server key hierarchy). For m …
How to: Scale out multi-tenant apps using RLS and Elastic Database Tools
First published on MSDN on May 07, 2015 In response to a common customer ask, we’ve published guidance for developing multi-tenant applications on Azure SQL Database using row-level security (RLS) for tenant isolation and elastic database tools (former …
Announcing Transparent Data Encryption for Azure SQL Database
First published on MSDN on Apr 29, 2015 Available today, SQL Database Transparent Data Encryption (preview) protects your data and helps you meet compliance requirements by encrypting your database, associated backups, and transaction log files at rest …
Updated MSDN Documentation for Azure SQL Database Row-Level Security
First published on MSDN on Jan 30, 2015 Row-Level Security Preview
Row-Level Security for Azure SQL Database
First published on MSDN on Jan 29, 2015 I’m so excited to announce that we are deploying Row-Level Security, a programmability feature to ease the writing of business security logic in the database, to Azure SQL Database. Coming to a region near you as …
Auditing in Azure SQL Database
First published on MSDN on Aug 05, 2014 I’m very excited to share the hard work some of my peers have been doing – Auditing in Azure SQL Database. After focusing on a bunch of behind the scenes security improvements, it’s good to get something customer …
Azure Trust Services
First published on MSDN on Feb 17, 2012 Microsoft is working on a new Windows Azure service through SQL Azure Labs , called Trust Services. It is an application-level encryption framework that can be used to protect sensitive data stored on the Windows …
Cumulative Update #6 for SQL Server 2016 SP2
The 6th cumulative update release for SQL Server 2016 SP2 is now available for download at the Microsoft Downloads site. Please note that registration is no longer required to download Cumulative updates. To learn more about the release or servicing mo …
Cumulative Update #14 for SQL Server 2016 SP1
The 14th cumulative update release for SQL Server 2016 SP1 is now available for download at the Microsoft Downloads site. Please note that registration is no longer required to download Cumulative updates. To learn more about the release or servicing m …
The March release of Azure Data Studio is now available
Were excited to announce the March release of Azure Data Studio (formerly known as SQL Operations Studio) is now available. Download Azure Data Studioand review the Release notes to get started. Please note: If youre currently using the preview version …
Enterprise-scale Backup for SQL Server Databases
More and more organizations are moving to the cloud to leverage the key benefits of agility and reduce overall cost. Its likely that at some point in time, your SQL Server will manifest as either of the three implementations in Azure: SQL Azure Databas …
Identify log write limits on Azure SQL Managed Instance using QPI library
Azure SQL Managed Instance is fully managed SQL Server instance hosted in Azure cloud. Managed Instance introduces some limits such as max log write throughput that can slow down your workload. In this post you will see how to identify write log throug …