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Breaking Limits: Full-Length SQL Audit Statements Now Supported for Azure SQL DB

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sravani-saluru
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Aug 20, 2025
We’re excited to announce a major enhancement to SQL auditing in Azure SQL Database, the removal of the 4,000-character truncation limit for audit records. What’s Changed? Previously, audit record...
Published Aug 20, 2025
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simon360
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Sep 08, 2025

Hi! Does this apply only to audit log files on storage account? We don't see this change on our Log Analytics workspace yet where the [statement_s] column appears to have a 4000 character max length.