Does anyone know if there is any type of audit trail mechanism used in SQl Server 2000 or 20005?
In our production environment, some of our stored procedures, views and data in our tables has changed. It would be nice to have a footprint of what was changed by whom and one.
For our code we use source safe but for SQL Server I am not aware of any type of auditing mechanism.
Hi,I want my application to audit any data changes (update, insert,delete) made by the users. Rather than have an audit table mirroringeach user table, I'd prefer to have a generic structure which can loganything. This is what I've come up with:TABLE: audit_record*audit_record_id (uniqueidentifier, auto-assign, PK) - uniqueidenfiier of the audit recordtable_name (varchar) - name of the table where the action (insert/update/delete) was madepk_value (varchar) - primary key of the changed record. If the PKitself has changed, this will store the old value.user_id (varchar) - user who changed the recorddate (datetime) - date/time at which the change was madeaction (int) - 0, 1 or 2 (insert, update, delete)TABLE: audit_column*audit_record_id (uniqueidentifier, composite PK) - FK tocdb_audit_record table*column_name (varchar, composite PK) - name of the column with changeddatanew_value (text?) - value after the changeSo every column which changes has its new value logged individually inthe audit_column table. However, I'm not sure what data type thenew_value column should have. The obvious answer (to me) is text, asthat can handle any necessary data type with the appropriateconversion (we don't store any binary data). However, this table isgoing to grow to millions of records and I'm not sure what theperformance implications of a text column will be, particularly giventhat the actual data stored in it will almost always be tiny.Any thoughts/recommendations/criticism would be greatly appreciated.ThanksAlex
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have made a server security audit and specify from database audit specification to audit "select" on a certain user and on a certain table. I logged in by this user and made the select statement..when i run this query
"select * from sys.fn_get_audit_file('d:Auditaudit1*',null,null)"
It return a value at which time the query has done
after 15 minutes i repeated the same action, i run the audit query and the same result is showed off on the panel.is it suppose to return a list of values by how many times this user has made the select statement on that table ? for example at 5:00 pm then 6:00 pm and so on
I need help...here is the problem.Last weekend, the servers in our datacenter where moved around. After thismove, and maybe coincidental, 1 server is performing very poor. Afterrunning a trace with SQL Profiler, I saw the problem which was laterconfirmed with another tool for SQL server performance monitoring. It seemsthat all connections to the SQL server (between 200 - 400) are doing a login/ logout for each command that they process. For example, the user'sconnection will login, perform a SELECT, and then logout. This is not a..NET application. The client software was not changed, it is still thesame. The vendor has said that it is not supposed to do that, it issupposed to use 1 connection that log's on in the morning and logs off atthe end of the day or whenever the user exits. 1 user may have severalconnections to the database.At times, the server is processing over 250 login / logouts (avgeraged for30 second period). Has anyone seen this problem? I have the server inAUDIT FAILUREs only. The server has become very unresponsive, things thattook 3 seconds now take over 15 seconds.Any ideas???
View 6 Replies View RelatedThat is to say, from a management perspective? I've been asked to provide one, as I'm the first DBA there ever, but I'm not sure what depth of info they want. And, does anyoe have scripts that can perform the audit, or an actual example audit?
I'd imagine an audit should encompass the following:
Database names;
Database sizes;
Location and size of data/temp/log etc. files;
Hardware specs (cpu/memory/disk sizes);
Number of logins;
User applications.
I'm sure that's only the tip of the iceberg, I'd be grateful for your input!
Thanks in advance,
Jaybee.
I restarted the sql server after c2 audit was enabled and now i can not start the instance getting this error below. how do i bring the sql server up?
Cannot start C2 audit trace. SQL Server is shutting down. Error = 0x80070003(The system cannot find the path specified.)
I have been tasked with auditing all DDL and selected DML events on a production server and logging them to a table. My solution is to use CDC for the DML and a Server-Level trigger for the DDL. Because there should never but much DDL activity on the server (except when performing update tasks) I don't need to worry about the trigger consuming too many resources.
My question is this: Is there any single specification such as DDL_LEVEL_EVENTS that can capture all DDL activity or do I need to specify each and every DDL action in the trigger?
Hi ,
I wanna setup audit in SQL SERVER 2000,can i know..How to setup audit?
How to filter from audit files for particular object?/
Thanks,
Hi ,
Recently i enabled audit by selecting properties of the server and enabling audit-all.
Now i disabled audit by select audit level=NONE.Still i get trace files.
Can anyone help me,how to stop this?
I also rebooted the server??
Hi,
I disabled audit by right-clicking the server->security->and disabled audit->none..But also we seeing audit files.
Can anyone help me??
Is there a way to audit the login on SQL Server 2000? I'm looking for away to get a report login/logout events with the name of the database.Thanks in advance.
View 3 Replies View RelatedSomehow someone turned on a audit on the sql server and it is filling up our hard drive and shutting down sql server eventually. Been trying to google how to shut this audit off but coming up with no via soolution yet. how can I turn this trace off. Each fiel says AuditTrace and date and they happen every other minute. I went into the sql profiler and can pull up the files but how to shut the trace off, it does not say.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI should audit all access by dba (italian privacy law) in my sql server , what is the best way?
Using the build in audit i can't achieve this goal, do i miss something?
My sqlserver use windows auth.
Is there any way to maintain audit trail of access to my SQL server 2000 database by any user ?? I need to log the timestamp of any insert/update/delete to any record in a table within the database by the user.
Alex
Hi,Could some please tell me whether Microsoft provides Type 2 and Type 4jdbc driver ? For Type 4 MS providescom.microsoft.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver driver. What is thecofiguration required for type 2 driver and what driver class filesrequired ?Its very urgent to me please reply.Ajay
View 1 Replies View RelatedI need to be able to run a SECURITY audit/report against my Report Servers. I want to be able to see which users have which rights in which folders, etc.
I cannot find any canned report for this (from MS or on Web)
I cannot find data in ReportServer dbase that I can read.
Has anyone done this? How?
This is nutty. I never got this error on my local machine. The only lower case m in the sql is by near the variable Ratingsum like in line 59.
[SqlException (0x80131904): Incorrect syntax near 'm'.An expression of non-boolean type specified in a context where a condition is expected, near 'type'.] System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection) +925466 System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection) +800118 System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.ThrowExceptionAndWarning(TdsParserStateObject stateObj) +186 System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.Run(RunBehavior runBehavior, SqlCommand cmdHandler, SqlDataReader dataStream, BulkCopySimpleResultSet bulkCopyHandler, TdsParserStateObject stateObj) +1932 System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteNonQueryTds(String methodName, Boolean async) +196 System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.InternalExecuteNonQuery(DbAsyncResult result, String methodName, Boolean sendToPipe) +269 System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.ExecuteNonQuery() +135 view_full_article.btnRating_Click(Object Src, EventArgs E) +565 System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e) +105 System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.RaisePostBackEvent(String eventArgument) +107 System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.System.Web.UI.IPostBackEventHandler.RaisePostBackEvent(String eventArgument) +7 System.Web.UI.Page.RaisePostBackEvent(IPostBackEventHandler sourceControl, String eventArgument) +11 System.Web.UI.Page.RaisePostBackEvent(NameValueCollection postData) +33 System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +1746</pre></code>
Here is my button click sub in its entirety:
1 Sub btnRating_Click(ByVal Src As Object, ByVal E As EventArgs)
2 'Variable declarations...
3 Dim articleid As Integer
4 articleid = Request.QueryString("aid")
5 Dim strSelectQuery, strInsertQuery As String
6 Dim strCon As String
7 Dim conMyConnection As New System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection()
8 Dim cmdMyCommand As New System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand()
9 Dim dtrMyDataReader As System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader
10 Dim MyHttpAppObject As System.Web.HttpContext = _
11 System.Web.HttpContext.Current
12 Dim strRemoteAddress As String
13 Dim intSelectedRating, intCount As Integer
14 Dim Ratingvalues As Decimal
15 Dim Ratingnums As Decimal
16 Dim Stars As Decimal
17 Dim Comments As String
18 Dim active As Boolean = False
19 Me.lblRating.Text = ""
20 'Get the user's ip address and cast its type to string...
21 strRemoteAddress = CStr(MyHttpAppObject.Request.UserHostAddress)
22 'Build the query string. This time check to see if IP address has already rated this ID.
23 strSelectQuery = "SELECT COUNT(*) As RatingCount "
24 strSelectQuery += "FROM tblArticleRating WHERE Itemid=" & articleid
25 strSelectQuery += " AND ip = '" & strRemoteAddress & "'"
26 'Open the connection, and execute the query...
27 strCon = System.Web.Configuration.WebConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings("sqlConnectionString").ConnectionString
28 conMyConnection.ConnectionString = strCon
29 conMyConnection.Open()
30 cmdMyCommand.Connection = conMyConnection
31 cmdMyCommand.CommandType = System.Data.CommandType.Text
32 cmdMyCommand.CommandText = strSelectQuery
33 intCount = cmdMyCommand.ExecuteScalar()
34 intSelectedRating = Int(Me.rbRating.Text)
35 conMyConnection.Close()
36 'Close the connection to release these resources...
37
38 If intCount = 0 Then 'The user hasn't rated the article
39 'before, so perform the insert...
40 strInsertQuery = "INSERT INTO tblArticleRating (rating, ip, itemID, comment, active) "
41 strInsertQuery += "VALUES ("
42 strInsertQuery += intSelectedRating & ", '"
43 strInsertQuery += strRemoteAddress & "', "
44 strInsertQuery += articleid & ", '"
45 strInsertQuery += comment.Text & "', '"
46 strInsertQuery += active & "'); "
47 cmdMyCommand.CommandText = strInsertQuery
48 conMyConnection.Open()
49 cmdMyCommand.ExecuteNonQuery()
50 conMyConnection.Close()
51 Me.lblRating.Text = "Thanks for your vote!"
52 Comments = comment.Text.ToString
53
54 If Len(Comments) > 0 Then
55 emailadmin(comment.Text, articleid)
56 End If
57 'now update the article db for the two values but first get the correct ratings for the article
58 strSelectQuery = _
59 "SELECT SUM(rating) As RatingSum, COUNT(*) As RatingCount "
60 strSelectQuery += "FROM tblArticleRating WHERE Itemid=" & articleid
61 conMyConnection.Open()
62 cmdMyCommand.CommandText = strSelectQuery
63 dtrMyDataReader = cmdMyCommand.ExecuteReader()
64 dtrMyDataReader.Read()
65 Ratingvalues = Convert.ToDecimal(dtrMyDataReader("RatingSum").ToString)
66 Ratingnums = Convert.ToDecimal(dtrMyDataReader("RatingCount").ToString)
67 Stars = Ratingvalues / Ratingnums
68 conMyConnection.Close()
69 'Response.Write("Values: " & Ratingvalues)
70 'Response.Write("Votes: " & Ratingnums)
71
72 UpdateRating(articleid, Stars, Ratingnums)
73 Else 'The user has rated the article before, so display a message...
74 Me.lblRating.Text = "You've already rated this article"
75 End If
76 strSelectQuery = _
77 "SELECT SUM(rating) As RatingSum, COUNT(*) As RatingCount "
78 strSelectQuery += "FROM tblArticleRating WHERE Itemid=" & articleid
79 conMyConnection.Open()
80 cmdMyCommand.CommandText = strSelectQuery
81 dtrMyDataReader = cmdMyCommand.ExecuteReader()
82 dtrMyDataReader.Read()
83 Ratingvalues = Convert.ToDecimal(dtrMyDataReader("RatingSum").ToString)
84 Ratingnums = Convert.ToDecimal(dtrMyDataReader("RatingCount").ToString)
85 Stars = Ratingvalues / Ratingnums
86 If (Ratingnums = 1) And (Stars <= 1) Then
87 lblRatingCount.Text =" (" & (String.Format("{0:f2}", Stars)) & ") / " & dtrMyDataReader("RatingCount") & " Vote"
88 ElseIf (Ratingnums = 1) And (Stars > 1) Then
89 lblRatingCount.Text = " (" & (String.Format("{0:f2}", Stars)) & ") / " & dtrMyDataReader("RatingCount") & " Vote"
90 ElseIf (Ratingnums > 1) And (Stars <= 1) Then
91 lblRatingCount.Text =" (" & (String.Format("{0:f2}", Stars)) & ") / " & dtrMyDataReader("RatingCount") & " Votes"
92 ElseIf (Ratingnums > 1) And (Stars > 1) Then
93 lblRatingCount.Text = " (" & (String.Format("{0:f2}", Stars)) & ") / " & dtrMyDataReader("RatingCount") & " Votes"
94 End If
95
96 'Response.Write(String.Format("{0:f2}", Stars))
97 'Response.Write("Values: " & Ratingvalues)
98 'Response.Write("Votes: " & Ratingnums)
99 If (Stars > 0) And (Stars <= 0.5) Then
100 Me.Rating.ImageUrl ="./images/rating/05star.gif"
101 ElseIf (Stars > 0.5) And (Stars < 1.0) Then
102 Me.Rating.ImageUrl = "./images/rating/05star.gif"
103 ElseIf (Stars >= 1.0) And (Stars < 1.5) Then
104 Me.Rating.ImageUrl = "./images/rating/1star.gif"
105 ElseIf (Stars >= 1.5) And (Stars < 2.0) Then
106 Me.Rating.ImageUrl = "./images/rating/15star.gif"
107 ElseIf (Stars >= 2.0) And (Stars < 2.5) Then
108 Me.Rating.ImageUrl = "./images/rating/2star.gif"
109 ElseIf (Stars >= 2.5) And (Stars < 3.0) Then
110 Me.Rating.ImageUrl = "./images/rating/25star.gif"
111 ElseIf (Stars >= 3.0) And (Stars < 3.5) Then
112 Me.Rating.ImageUrl = "./images/rating/3star.gif"
113 ElseIf (Stars >= 3.5) And (Stars < 4.0) Then
114 Me.Rating.ImageUrl = "./images/rating/35star.gif"
115 ElseIf (Stars >= 4.0) And (Stars < 4.5) Then
116 Me.Rating.ImageUrl = "./images/rating/4star.gif"
117 ElseIf (Stars >= 4.5) And (Stars < 5.0) Then
118 Me.Rating.ImageUrl = "./images/rating/45star.gif"
119 ElseIf (Stars >= 4.5) And (Stars <= 5.0) Then
120 Me.Rating.ImageUrl = "./images/rating/5star.gif"
121 End If
122 dtrMyDataReader.Close()
123 conMyConnection.Close()
124 End Sub
If you want to reduplicate the error, click over here and try to submit a rating:
http://www.link-exchangers.com/view_full_article.aspx?aid=51
Thanks for helping me figure this out.
Happy Friday!
A while since I have posted a question, and this one is probably real easy.
I am trying to store numeric values from a php form in MSSQL 2000 database. However, the columns are set to float and if the value is 1.00, when entered into the table it is saved as 1
If I change the column type to money, the query fails, with an error message of conversion of datatype varchar to datatype money statement terminated.
anybody know what I need to do? do I need to do something in my query to specify that this is NOT varchar data?
I like to define my procedure parameter type to match a referenced table colum type,
similar to PL/SQL "table.column%type" notation.
That way, when the table column is changes, I would not have to change my stored proc.
Any suggestion?
Hi,
The table in SQL has column Availability Decimal (8,8)
Code in c# using sqlbulkcopy trying to insert values like 0.0000, 0.9999, 29.999 into the field Availability
we tried the datatype float , but it is converting values to scientific expressions€¦(eg: 8E-05) and the values displayed in reports are scientifc expressions which is not expected
we need to store values as is
Error:
base {System.SystemException} = {"The given value of type SqlDecimal from the data source cannot be converted to type decimal of the specified target column."}
"System.InvalidOperationException: The given value of type SqlDecimal from the data source cannot be converted to type decimal of the specified target column. ---> System.InvalidOperationException: The given value of type SqlDecimal from the data source cannot be converted to type decimal of the specified target column. ---> System.ArgumentException: Parameter value '1.0000' is out of range.
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlBulkCopy.ConvertValue(Object value, _SqlMetaData metadata)
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlBulkCopy.ConvertValue(Object value, _SqlMetaData metadata)
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlBulkCopy.WriteToServerInternal()
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlBulkCopy.WriteRowSourceToServer(Int32 columnCount)
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlBulkCopy.WriteToServer(DataTable table, DataRowState rowState)
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlBulkCopy.WriteToServer(DataTable table)
at MS.Internal.MS
COM.AggregateRealTimeDataToSQL.SqlHelper.InsertDataIntoAppServerAvailPerMinute(String data, String appName, Int32 dateID, Int32 timeID) in C:\VSTS\MXPS Shared Services\RealTimeMonitoring\AggregateRealTimeDataToSQL\SQLHelper.cs:line 269"
Code in C#
SqlBulkCopy bulkCopy = new SqlBulkCopy(sqlConnection, SqlBulkCopyOptions.Default);
DataRow dr;
DataTable dt = new DataTable();
DataColumn dc;
try
{
dc = dt.Columns.Add("Availability", typeof(decimal));
€¦.
dr["Availability"] = Convert.ToDecimal(s[2]); ------ I tried SqlDecimal
€¦€¦€¦.
}
bulkCopy.DestinationTableName = "dbo.[Tbl_Fact_App_Server_AvailPerMinute]";
bulkCopy.WriteToServer(dt);
thx
Implement time interval type in the form of a user defined type in SS2k8r2? Specifically an interval type described in the book Temporal Data and the Relational Model by C. J. Date at all. As an example, an interval is below:
1/4/2006:1/10/2006
which would mean the time period from 1/4 to 1/10.
I am trying to use the Bulk Insert Task to load from a csv file. My final column is a bit that is nullable. My file is an ID column that is int, a date column that is mm/dd/yyy, then 20 columns that are real, and a final column that is bit. I've tried various combinations of codepage and datafiletype on my task component. When I have RAW with Char, I get the error included below. If I change to RAW/Native or codepage 1252, I don't have an issue with the bit; however, errors start generating on the ID and date columns.
I have tried various data type settings on my flat file connection, too. I have tried DT_BOOL and the integer datatypes. Nothing seems to work.
I hope someone can help me work through this.
Thanks in advance,
SK
SSIS package "Package3.dtsx" starting.
Error: 0xC002F304 at Bulk Insert Task, Bulk Insert Task: An error occurred with the following error message: "Cannot fetch a row from OLE DB provider "BULK" for linked server "(null)".The OLE DB provider "BULK" for linked server "(null)" reported an error. The provider did not give any information about the error.The bulk load failed. The column is too long in the data file for row 1, column 24. Verify that the field terminator and row terminator are specified correctly.Bulk load data conversion error (type mismatch or invalid character for the specified codepage) for row 1, column 23 (cancelled).".
Error: 0xC002F304 at Bulk Insert Task 1, Bulk Insert Task: An error occurred with the following error message: "Cannot fetch a row from OLE DB provider "BULK" for linked server "(null)".The OLE DB provider "BULK" for linked server "(null)" reported an error. The provider did not give any information about the error.The bulk load failed. The column is too long in the data file for row 1, column 24. Verify that the field terminator and row terminator are specified correctly.Bulk load data conversion error (type mismatch or invalid character for the specified codepage) for row 1, column 23 (cancelled).".
Task failed: Bulk Insert Task 1
Task failed: Bulk Insert Task
Warning: 0x80019002 at Package3: The Execution method succeeded, but the number of errors raised (2) reached the maximum allowed (1); resulting in failure. This occurs when the number of errors reaches the number specified in MaximumErrorCount. Change the MaximumErrorCount or fix the errors.
SSIS package "Package3.dtsx" finished: Failure.
I created a function called Temperature in VB to be used as a UDF in SQL2005. I get the error listed below. Any thoughts?
CREATE FUNCTION Temperature(@FluidName SQL_variant, @InpCode SQL_variant, @Units SQL_variant, @Prop1 SQL_variant, @Prop2 SQL_variant)
RETURNS Float
AS EXTERNAL NAME Fluids_VB6.[Fluids_VB6.FluidProperties.Fluids].Temperature
Then ran function:
select dbo.temperature('R22','t','e','225.6','0')
Got this:
Msg 6522, Level 16, State 2, Line 1
A .NET Framework error occurred during execution of user defined routine or aggregate 'Temperature':
System.InvalidCastException: Conversion from type 'SqlBoolean' to type 'Boolean' is not valid.
System.InvalidCastException:
at Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Conversions.ToBoolean(Object Value)
at Fluids_VB6.FluidProperties.Fluids.Setup(Object& FluidName)
at Fluids_VB6.FluidProperties.Fluids.CalcSetup(Object& FluidName, Object& InpCode, Object& Units, Object& Prop1, Object& Prop2)
at Fluids_VB6.FluidProperties.Fluids.CalcProp(Object& FluidName, Object& InpCode, Object& Units, Object& Prop1, Object& Prop2)
at Fluids_VB6.FluidProperties.Fluids.Temperature(Object FluidName, Object InpCode, Object Units, Object Prop1, Object Prop2)
Thanks
Buck
I want to register into a table each time a user creates, modifies or deletes any object in a database. It's not possible to add a trigger to the sysobjects table. What can I do?
View 1 Replies View RelatedHello,
I enabled the C2 Audit option for my SQL server and it is working allright. i am trying to figure out how can i configure the audit to run for specific databases/tables only. I have several databases on the server but I just want to audit one table in one database for PCI compliance rules.
Any recommendations?
Thanks,
Tony
Hi all,
I am developing ASP.NET 1.1 application using VB.NET & SQL Server, on my machine I am using SQL Server 2000, and everything is working just fine.
The problem appears when I uploaded the site to the Host, they are using SQL Server 2005, is there any reason for this, I am using casting in the code, and I am sure there is something wrong with the hosting settings.
Any suggestions.
Best Regards
Wafi Mohtaseb
Hello Friends
How are you?? Friends i am getting problem in SQL Server 2005. I am deployng web application on production server as well as Databse also. In production server i inserted new field in all tables which is rowguid and its type is uniqueidentifier. The default binding for this field is newsequentialid(). In some pages it works ok but in some places it generates error like 'Conversion from type 'DBNull' to type 'String' is not valid'. Can anybody help me to solve this problem. Its urgent so plz reply me as soon as possible. I'll be very thankfull to you. Thanks in Advance.
Regards,
I have extensively revied both of the design methodologies and I cannot come up with a single clear reason to use one over the other!
Type - Attributes is where you have a table holding the type categories, type, a table holding the type attributes expected and then a table holding the type attribute value:
tbAutombbileCategories
CategoryID | Category
-------------------------------
1 | Car
2 | Truck
3 | Motorcycle
tbAutomobileAttributes
AttributeID | fkCategoryID | Attribute
-------------------------------------------
1 | 1 (car) | Doors
2 | 2 (truck) | Cab
3 | 2 (truck) | Capacity
tbAutomobile
VIN | Category | Make | Model
-------------------------------------
1 | 1 | Honda | Accord
2 | 2 | Ford | F150
tbAutomobileAttributeValues
fkVIN | fkAttributeID | Value
---------------------------------
1 | 1 | 2
2 | 1 | 0
2 | 2 | 1000
Now the above sure is flexible in the sence that a type of automobile can be added without affecting the database schema, but was if some attributes do not take a numeric value? How do you handle computations on attributes specific attributes? Why would I use this structure as opposed to the super type - sub type as shown below?
tbCategories
CategoryID | Category
--------------------------
1 | Cars
2 | Trucks
tbAutomobile (Super Type)
VIN | fkCategoryID | Make | Model
-------------------------------------
1 | 1 |Honda | Accord
tbCars
fkVIN | Doors |
-----------------
1 | 2
tbTrucks
fkVIN | Cab | Capacity
---------------------------
2 | 0 | 1000
Now, adding new sub types probably isn't very flexible but, now you can specify data types for each attribute instead of using sql_variant, which by the documentation cannot be used in aggregate functions and may render poor result when used with ADO.
Regardless of the method used, alot of back end coding is required for computations, what table to send the attributes, etc...
Can anyone please help me clarify. What method is best and why. So far I am leaning for option 2. More work but seems to be more flexible in the sence of customization of each datatype.
E.G., what if you wanted to specify attributes about the cap that can be supplied to trucks?
tbTrucks
fkVIN | Cab | Capacity | fkCapID
--------------------------------------
2 | Y | 1000 | 1
tbCaps
CapID | Vendor | Price | et....
Any thoughts at all? I thought this would have been a pretty damn hot topic!
Mike B
I'm trying to use the SSIS Execute SQL Task to pull XML from a SQL 2005 database table. The SQL is of the following form:
SELECT
(
SELECT
MT.MessageId 'MessageId',
MT.MessageType 'MessageType',
FROM MessageTable MT
ORDER BY MT.messageid desc
FOR XML PATH('MessageStatus'), TYPE
)
FOR XML PATH('Report'), TYPE
For some reason I can only get this query to work if I use an ADO.NET connection type. If I try to use something like the OLEDB connection I get the following error:
<ROOT><?MSSQLError HResult="0x80004005" Source="Microsoft XML Extensions to SQL Server" Description="No description provided"?></ROOT>
Can anyone tell me why the SELECT ... FOR XML PATH... seems only to work with ADO.NET connections?
Thanks
Walter
Good morning,
Im having a little problem with this report I need to generate, so I thought I would ask for some advice.
I have 2 tables. The 1st is the actual table and the 2nd is the log table (Employee; Employee_log). the '_log' table is an image of the Employee table except it has 4 extra fields (recID, last_updated_employee_id, operation and operation_date) recid being the PK of the log table.
I need to generate a report that contains some thing like the following:
Table_Name
Column_Name
Old_Value
New_Value
Employee_Modifier
Operation
Operation_Date
Employee
LastName
Reid
Blevins
Jessica Bluff
UPDATE
2/2/2008
Employee
FirstName
Bison
Blison
Jessica Bluff
UPDATE
2/1/2008
Employee
EmployeeID
1234
Jessica Bluff
INSERT
2/1/2008
Employee
EmployeeID
75
Bill Thompson
DELETE
1/28/2008
To do this, I compare the Employee table to the Employee_log table. If I find changes (the two columns do not equal), I add that columnName and the column value for the regular table(new_value) and the column value for the log table(old value). If anyone has a solution or some sql to help me out, it would be greatly appreciated. (A query that will give me each columnName with the value per row would help; Somehow possibly joining my Employee table with 'INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS' ??) Thanks!
Hello,
I wish to track changes made to a table, including login who made the change, time of change, etc, without having to change the existing table structure, stored procedures, application.
If anyone has any strategies (with a brief explanation) or articles they could point me to, it would be very much appreciated.
My thinking is to set up a trigger to write both old and new data to a audit table but considering different strategies may be helpful.
Thanks for your time,
Esox
Hi,
Is there anyway I can audit the data imported by BCP or DTS into the table ?
Thanks,
Mano.
I have tried to make my basic audit log do more, but i haven't gotten very far;
In my basic audit log, i record this information:
table
type of change
field modified
old value
new value
db user
date/time
This audit records everything, which is great, but it cannot relate information when i go back to analyze the changes; for example, when a "directory" record is added, a user's information may be entered into several different tables, such as:
name (different table)
addresses (different table)
phone numbers (different table)
If one wanted to look up the changes to addresses of a person in the directory based on the person's name, i could not do it with my existing audit log because the addresses would be in a different table than the name table and there is no relating data in the audit log to relate the address changes to a persons name;
What might be a solution? I have tried a few approaches and am at a loss;
Thank you!
--llyal