Azure SQL Database Ledger — Overview
by Juarez Junior
Introduction to Azure SQL Database Ledger
First of all, let me emphasize that the Azure SQL Database Ledger feature is currently in public preview and available in West Europe, Brazil South, and West Central US.
Business and value proposition and a technical solution
The main purpose of Azure SQL Database Ledger is to fully establish trust around the integrity of data stored in a relational database system by means of cryptographic data integrity.
The ledger feature of Azure SQL Database provides tamper-evidence capabilities in your database. You can cryptographically attest to other business parties, such as auditors and cybersecurity companies, that your data hasn’t been tampered with.
Below we have an overview of our ledger table architecture.
The ledger is reliable and secure. it helps protect data from any attacker or high-privileged user, including DBAs, sysadmins, and cloud administrators as well.
