Microsoft have made the claim that you don’t need to run consistency checks on Azure SQL Databases because they take care of it. That’s nice, one less thing to worry about right? Of course to a DBA a claim like that falls into the same category as your backups being reliable without verifying them, or…I dunno…internet privacy not being a problem for people with nothing to hide. In short, unless I know HOW they are achieving this I am not going to consider my data safe, and even then I’m probably going to be dubious.