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Ahmad Osama
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Ahmad Osama

Ahmad Osama works for Pitney Bowes Pvt. Ltd. as a technical architect and is a former Microsoft Data Platform MVP. In his day job, he works on developing and maintaining high performant, on-premises and cloud SQL Server OLTP environments as well as deployment and automating tasks using PowerShell. When not working, Ahmad blogs at DataPlatformLabs and can be found glued to his Xbox.
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Shashikant Shakya
Shashikant Shakya
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Shashikant Shakya

Shashikant Shakya is a passionate technologist with decades of experience in the sphere of databases. He works for Microsoft as a senior support engineer. In his day job, he works on Azure SQL Database, Azure Database for MySQL, and PostgreSQL. Apart from his work, he is a regular speaker at the SQLBangalore community group.
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Activity: Audit COPY_ONLY backup events on SQL Managed Instance using audit logs

In the previous activity, we saw the steps to enable a server audit for SQL Managed Instance. In this activity, we will use the server audit to track user-initiated COPY_ONLY database backups.

SQL Managed Instance has the ability to take database backups with the COPY_ONLY option on Azure Blob Storage. By default, all the databases are protected using a service-managed Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) key and COPY_ONLY backups are not allowed.

But there could be scenarios where a user who has higher access on an instance can disable service-managed TDE and take a COPY_ONLY backup of a database. You can track these events using audit logs.

Steps to configure an audit for backup and restore events

We have already seen how to configure a storage container for audit logs in a previous demo. Here we will create a server audit specification to track backup events.

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Ahmad Osama

Ahmad Osama works for Pitney Bowes Pvt. Ltd. as a technical architect and is a former Microsoft Data Platform MVP. In his day job, he works on developing and maintaining high performant, on-premises and cloud SQL Server OLTP environments as well as deployment and automating tasks using PowerShell. When not working, Ahmad blogs at DataPlatformLabs and can be found glued to his Xbox.
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Shashikant Shakya

Shashikant Shakya is a passionate technologist with decades of experience in the sphere of databases. He works for Microsoft as a senior support engineer. In his day job, he works on Azure SQL Database, Azure Database for MySQL, and PostgreSQL. Apart from his work, he is a regular speaker at the SQLBangalore community group.
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