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Enhanced Server Audit for Azure SQL Database: Greater Performance, Availability and Reliability

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sravani-saluru
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Jan 15, 2025
We are excited to announce a significant update to the server audit feature for Azure SQL Database. We have re-architected major portions of SQL Auditing resulting in increased availability and relia...
Updated Aug 25, 2025
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AndreasWolter1
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Jul 25, 2025

Small hint: The minimal permission that for sys.fn_get_audit_file is VIEW SERVER SECURITY AUDIT. The team did a lot of work to enable these minimal permissions for security auditors.

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Aug 25, 2025

Yes, Updated the blog. we had some issues which are fixed now, and we can now use the granular permission