I am trying to create a sql script that will check the database instance for any new objects that are created in any database on my system. These objects I want to audit are users, tables, databases, stored procs, etc.. I also want the script to email me and write the information to a text log file. Thanks in advance for any help.
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Hi,
we have database and sql login TESTUSER that all front end application (VB6) user as sql user to be able to communicate with DB. we have around 30+ users machine that is running that front end application.....!
how would i do auditing (who change what data and when, etc, etc) on each user action if needed. for that do i need 30+ unique users for each machine.
Thanks,
We have about 50 SQL Servers (most 2000 but some 2005) in different domains and behind firewalls and we implementing the PCI rules for the use of credit card data. One thing we need to do is to audit users and their rights. I have a stored proc that can run each night and record users and permissions.
My main problem is trying to bring all that data together on a central box and then parse through it to see if I have any offenders. The parsing is not the issue, but the polling is. I could use the SA account or create a audit account with SA rights but both of those solutions go against the PCI mantra.
Can someone who has done this give me some guidance as to what you did. I know that there are some third party tools that would probably do this, but my department is on a shallow budget and my overtime is free.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
Jim Youmans
St. Louis
Hi,
i need to set up some security standands in sql 6.5/7 . These includes auditing login attempts success and failure, access to db objects etc. I know sql is has very limited capabilities . can anyone tell me how to implement this without using event viewer etc??
I want to know are there any other third party tools that are used for Auditing the SQL Server Like...DBAudit.
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I need some help with this. I have a development server and all the developers log in as sa. Lately test data has been mysteriously deleted from selected tables. I need to track the time that the activity is taking place so I can figure out who might be playing this little game. Can anyone suggest what I can do to find this out? Your quick response will be appreciated.
I'm wanting to do some auditing with sql 2k and wish to get the users first and last name of the windows account to log into a table. You can easily access the windows account name by using the System_User keyword. However, is it possible to get the first and last name of the system_user? If so, how?
Thanks.
Does anyone have a query to determine if auditing is turned on and what it is set to (It needs to be set to failed logins)? Also where the log directory is going? I need the query to work on both SQL Server 2000 and 2005 servers. Any help is appreciated.
-Kyle
Hello,Can anyone tell me how to monitor logins/logouts to Analysis Servicesdatabases? I use Profiler to do so in SQL, but cannot find a way to doit in AS.Thanks,Tim*** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com ***Don't just participate in USENET...get rewarded for it!
View 1 Replies View RelatedBelow is a script I found that will help me turn on C2 auditing. The problem is that I am generating trace files that take up way too much space.
I need to know what column id and event id, so I am only turning on "failed login" and nothing else.
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, x, x, @on
Code Snippet
CREATE PROC AuditTrcProc AS
-- Create a Queue
declare @rc int
declare @TraceID int
declare @maxfilesize bigint
set @maxfilesize = 1
-- Please replace the test InsertFileNameHere with an appropriate
-- filename prefixed by a path, eg.. c:MyFolderMyTrace. The .trc extention
-- will be appended to the filename automatically. If you are writing from
-- remote server to local crive, please use UNC path and make sure server has
-- write access to your network share
declare @cmd sysname
set @cmd = 'copy c: empsessiontrace.trc c: empsession' + cast(cast(rand() * 1000000 as int) as varchar)
print @cmd
exec master..xp_cmdshell @cmd
set @cmd = 'del c: empsessiontrace.trc'
print @cmd
exec master..xp_cmdshell @cmd
exec @rc = sp_trace_create @TraceID output, 2, N'c: empsessiontrace.trc', @maxfilesize, null
if (@rc != 0) goto error
-- Client side file and table cannot be scripted
-- set the events
declare @on bit
set @on = 1
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 10, 1, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 10, 6, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 10, 9, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 10, 10, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 10, 11, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 10, 12, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 10, 13, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 10, 14, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 10, 16, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 10, 17, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 10, 18, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 12, 1, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 12, 6, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 12, 9, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 12, 10, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 12, 11, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 12, 12, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 12, 13, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 12, 14, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 12, 16, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 12, 17, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 12, 18, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 14, 1, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 14, 6, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 14, 9, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 14, 10, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 14, 11, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 14, 12, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 14, 13, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 14, 14, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 14, 16, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 14, 17, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 14, 18, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 15, 1, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 15, 6, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 15, 9, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 15, 10, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 15, 11, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 15, 12, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 15, 13, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 15, 14, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 15, 16, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 15, 17, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 15, 18, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 17, 1, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 17, 6, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 17, 9, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 17, 10, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 17, 11, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 17, 12, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 17, 13, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 17, 14, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 17, 16, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 17, 17, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 17, 18, @on
-- Set the Filters
declare @intfilter int
declare @bigintfilter bigint
exec sp_trace_setfilter @TraceID, 10, 0, 7, N'SQL Profiler'
-- Set the trace status to start
exec sp_trace_setstatus @TraceID, 1
-- display trace id for future references
select TraceID=@TraceID
goto finish
error:
select ErrorCode=@rc
return @rc
finish:
return @TraceID
Is there any way to know the auditing table name in sql server 2008.
I am performing auditing for practice . i selected application log to store the audit logs.
I want to know in which table auditing results wil be stored .
I wanted to set up a trigger to alter me or log to a table when someone is added to a server role. The event for the trigger I wanted to use is ADD_SERVER_ROLE_MEMBER. When trying to create the trigger, I get the following information:
"ADD_SERVER_ROLE_MEMBER" does not support synchronous trigger registration.
Hello,
We are maintaining an internal ASP.NET v2.0 website which is quite big and already in production. The underlying SQL Server 2005 database contains 350+ tables.
Recently, we have been asked to implement a new feature which seems functionally quite simple. We have to track every single data modification, which includes insertions, deletions and modifications. This information should be presented to power users in the form of readable strings right in an admin section of our website.
Our team of architects is working on a way to make it possible without putting the SQL Server to a crawl. One thing is for sure, SQL Server 2005 already does the job through its transaction log. It should be a good idea to use it directly instead of managing our own log based on triggers. Why put more pressure on the server to write data that is already logged by the database engine? We have heard that Microsoft's SQL Server team do not support this concept and are wondering why...
It's quite easy to find queries on the web that output very useful information such as date of transactions and what they have done. Although, the data involved in those transactions seems to be stored in a binary field which can be retrived using this query: SELECT "log record" FROM ::fn_dblog(null,null)
3rd parties such as Apex SQL are already doing a great job at decrypting it for us. This is very useful but not efficient since those tools do a very generic job. We would like to optimize it for our needs. All we need to know is who made the modifications, when, in which tables and what are the new values.
We believe that we would have to decrypt the "log record" field from the ::fn_dblog(null, null) table. Is there any way to get basic documentation about how to do it?
Thanks!
Marc Lacoursiere
RooSoft Computing
I'm a VB programmer creating apps to write/edit/delete data to a SQLServer 2000 database.For HIPAA requirements, I need to track all changes to all the tables inour database. I'm looking for the easiest and cheapest solution.I have no experience writing Sql Server 2000 triggers and storedprocedures.I have found the following application which might do what I need to do:Upscene: MSSQL Log ManagerPrice $125http://www.upscene.comKrell Software: OmniAuditPrice $399http://www.krell-software.comApex SQL Software: Apex SQL AuditPrice $599http://www.apexsql.comLogPI: LogPIPrice $825http://www.logpi.comLumigent: Entegra for SQL ServerPrice ???http://www.lumigent.comAny comments sugestions appreciated.Gregory S. MoyInformation Processing ConsultantEpiSense Research ProgramDepartment of Ophthalmology & Visual SciencesUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
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I have few tables. I want to identify the RECORDS for a table which has been created/modified for a particular date and time. I don't want to write a trigger to capture the event for add/update.
Is there any system table which track for date and time using stored procedure each individual records which has been last updated or newly created records??
Note : The application already created without lastModified date and each table... so, we don't want to modify the application or db.
Database : SQL Server 2000 sp4
thanks in advance.
I am trying to import this years worth of failed logins and last successful login for each user out of the logs using master.dbo.xp_readerrorlog. The script essentially loops through the linked servers I have on my DBA box and reaches out for the log data. It works, but here is the error I am getting on most of our production servers:
OLE DB provider "SQLNCLI11" for linked server "AWSCADENCEDB01" returned message "The partner transaction manager has disabled its support for remote/network transactions.".
Msg 7391, Level 16, State 2, Line 17
The operation could not be performed because OLE DB provider "SQLNCLI11" for linked server "AWSCADENCEDB01" was unable to begin a distributed transaction.
I know how to enable distributed transactions on the servers that error out, but if it is not needed for anything other then my audit script, I doubt the business will approve me turning on distributed transactions at those locations (so I am not even going to ask).
I am attempting to setup a singular audit .rdl with the information I want to review quarterly.
CREATE PROC [dbo].[Import_Login_Data]
AS
IF EXISTS (
SELECT 1
FROM master.sys.servers
WHERE is_linked = 1
[Code] ....
We have an existing SSRS server, and have just created a new child domain. We'll be migrating users from the parent to the child, and want to add the users of that new domain with access to SSRS. In the parent domain they are able to access, but after migration with the child domain account, they cannot.
I have added the group CHILDDomain Users with a system user role on SSRS, and PARENTDomain Users was already there.
Is there any additional step I should/could take to get this active?
I have had this issue just pop up. I have local users who can connect fine, but my users that require connection by VPN cannot connect. I get the server not available or access denied error. I did confirm that the VPN'ers are connected to the network correctly and can see that their shares and mappings are correct. Any ideas? Thanking you all in advance!!
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View 2 Replies View Relatedhi alli've got two tables called "webusers" (id, name, fk_country) and "countries" (id, name)
at the meantime, i've a search-page where i can fill a form to search users. in the dropdown to select the country i included an option which is called "all countries".
now the problem is: how can i make a stored procedure that makes a restriction to the fk_country depending on the submitted fk_country parameter?it should be something like
SELECT * FROM webusers(if @fk_country > 0, which is the value for "all countries"){ WHERE fk_country = @fk_country}
who has an idea how to solve this problem?
It seems to me there are two common strategies for doing DB audit trails via a trigger:
1. On an update to a row, duplicate that row in another table with
identical rows, except for perhaps the extra columns which represent
change date and changed by. Eg. When there is an update to the Customer
table, record the changes in Customer_Audit.
2. On an update to a row, check which fields were updated. Then in a
common audit table record the table, row ID, field, previous value and
new value of the field.
I'm wondering about the pros and cons of each. More specifically, do
the pros and cons change if you are using an O/R mapper (I'm using
NHibernate.)
Some thoughts on method 1 . It seems nice for an O/R mapper, since you
could have, say, a CustomerAudit Object inherit from your Customer
object and just add the properties change date and changed by. A
problem with this is you're going to add a whole lot of objects - one
for each object which you want to audit. Another drawback is that it
could be difficult to generate a history for a particular property
which was updated. Let's say I want to see the history of changes to
the customer's status. I have to load a collection of CustomerAudit
objects (which could be costly). Then I have to iterate through them
and compare the status properties to generate a history of statuses.
This is a pretty labor instensive method if you compare it to method 2,
where the change is recorded by field, not row.
Some thoughts on method 2. It's nice since the changes are by field,
not row, which (as above) makes generating a history easy. On the other
hand, you can never have a snapshot of a particular object at a
particular point in time. Moreover, I'm not sure how foreign keys would
be handled elegantly. I record that customer.statusID changes from 3 to
6. I'd have to do a seperate join to the customerstatus table to get
meaning for 3 and 6 (which method 1 would do automatically).
Thoughts? Any preferred way to do this with an O/R mapper?
Thanks
Hello,
I'm working on Sybase and recently started working on MS SQL Server. Can anyone guide me how to set up auditing for errors whether fatal or not?
Any help is appreciated
Thanks
Dinesh
A few days ago I saw a article on the internet (i don't know where), which described a way for auditing all database activities (like deleting records per user etc.) Unfortunally I can't find this document. Can anyone help me with this?
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80 % of DTS run from
exec master..xp_cmdshell 'dtsrun ....
20 % started by server agent
I have list with 200 DTS
I want to delete dts that are not in use.
Can I use profiler or it its possible to get info from system tables?
Thank you
Hello,
I'm working on Sybase and recently started working on MS SQL Server. Can anyone guide me how to set up auditing for errors whether fatal or not?
Any help is appreciated
Thanks
Dinesh
Guys,
We looking to audit tables in the database. In the tables auditing needs to be done only on few columns not all the columns. Is there any 3rd party tool available to do it can it auditing be done on columns only with sql server 2005. Trigger doesnt work in this scenario as it works per row it does not say which column in the row was updated/inserted/deleted.
For example in the below employee table, I want to audit(history) only ssn and dob columns - all the updates/inserts/deletes made to this column should be audited.
empidempname ssndob
1John,smith 122222222 07/29/2001
Any suggestions and inputs would help
Thanks
I have a table and the data in this table (for no rhyme or reason)is being deleted somehow. I'm looking for suggestions on how to audit this table and find out who or what process could be deleting my data.
View 3 Replies View RelatedHi folks. I am a new DBA and working on taking over several existing MSSQL 6.5 applications.
My company needs to be able to audit the following actions on MSSQL.
login
logout
insert into specific tables
update in specific tables
delete from specific tables
I am looking for a 3rd party product that provides these services for SQL 6.5. I have found Braintree products and they have really nice auditing but for Oracle and not MSSQL. I have also looking into using triggers to build an audit log for me but the applications we are using require periodic updates that would force me to rebuild the triggers. This may cause too much administrativia.
Any Ideas?
Thanks, Aaron
Someone had changed the SA password on one of my servers. I need to find out who did this. Can you tell me if there is any historical information kept on any of the system tables that can tell me who (what machine name) and when (date and time)this was done?
Does anyone have a 3rd party or inhouse developed task/procedure to report this kind of security issues?
hey all, i found this auditing trigger, currently it just kicks out what was changed and when, id like to add who cause the trigger to fire as well (currently its just set to the "inventory" table). check under the "add the audit fields" comment for info:
CREATE TRIGGER TRG_inventory
ON [DBO].[inventory]
FOR DELETE,INSERT,UPDATE
AS
DECLARE @ACT CHAR(6)
DECLARE @DEL BIT
DECLARE @INS BIT
DECLARE @SQLSTRING VARCHAR(2000)
SET @DEL = 0
SET @INS = 0
IF EXISTS (SELECT TOP 1 1 FROM DELETED) SET @DEL=1
IF EXISTS (SELECT TOP 1 1 FROM INSERTED) SET @INS = 1
IF @INS = 1 AND @DEL = 1 SET @ACT = 'UPDATE'
IF @INS = 1 AND @DEL = 0 SET @ACT = 'INSERT'
IF @DEL = 1 AND @INS = 0 SET @ACT = 'DELETE'
IF @INS = 0 AND @DEL = 0 RETURN
IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM SYSOBJECTS WHERE ID = OBJECT_ID(N'[DBO].[AUDIT_inventory]') AND OBJECTPROPERTY(ID, N'ISUSERTABLE') = 1)
BEGIN
-- CREATE A MEMORY TABLE CONTAINING THE FIELDS AND TYPES OF THE TABLE
DECLARE @MEMTABLE TABLE
(
ID INT IDENTITY
,COLUMNAME SYSNAME
,TYPENAME VARCHAR(20)
)
-- INSERT THE COLUMNAMES AND THE DATATYPES
INSERT @MEMTABLE
(COLUMNAME,TYPENAME)
SELECT NAME,TYPE_NAME(XTYPE)
FROM SYSCOLUMNS
WHERE ID = OBJECT_ID('[DBO].[inventory]')
ORDER BY COLID
DECLARE @CUR INTEGER
DECLARE @MAX INTEGER
DECLARE @SQLSTR AS VARCHAR(8000)
DECLARE @CURCOL SYSNAME
DECLARE @COLTYPE AS VARCHAR(10)
-- SETUP VARIABLES
SET @SQLSTR = ''
SET @CUR=1
SELECT @MAX = MAX(ID) FROM @MEMTABLE
-- LOOP EVEY FIELD
WHILE @CUR <= @MAX
BEGIN
-- GET VALUES FROM THE MEMTABLE
SELECT @CURCOL = COLUMNAME,@COLTYPE = TYPENAME FROM @MEMTABLE WHERE ID = @CUR
IF @COLTYPE = 'INT' OR @COLTYPE = 'BIGINT' OR @COLTYPE='UNIQUEIDENTIFIER'
-- WE DO WANT TO COPY INT/BIGINT/UNIQUEIDENTIFIER FIELDS BUT IF THEY ARE AN
-- IDENTITY OR A ROWGUIDCOLUMN WE DO NOT WANT TO COPY THOSE ATTRIBUTES
SET @SQLSTR = @SQLSTR + ' CAST('+@CURCOL + ' AS '+@COLTYPE+') AS [' + @CURCOL +'] '
ELSE
-- ANOTHER FIELD DO NOTHING JUST COPY IT AS IT IS
SET @SQLSTR = @SQLSTR + ' '+@CURCOL + ' AS [' + @CURCOL +'] '
IF @CUR <= @MAX - 1 SET @SQLSTR=@SQLSTR + ','
SET @CUR = @CUR + 1
END
-- ADD THE AUDIT FIELDS
SET @SQLSTR = @SQLSTR +',CAST('' '' AS CHAR(6)) AS TRG_ACTION,CAST(GETDATE() AS DATETIME) AS TRG_DATE ' - tryin to add who made the update here, figure out what GETUSER translates to
-- SET UP THE SELECT FOR CREATING THE AUDIT TABLE
SET @SQLSTR = 'SELECT TOP 0 ' + @SQLSTR + ' INTO [DBO].[AUDIT_inventory] FROM [DBO].[inventory]'
EXEC(@SQLSTR)
END
IF @ACT = 'INSERT' INSERT [DBO].[AUDIT_inventory] SELECT *,'INSERT' ,GETDATE() FROM INSERTED
IF @ACT = 'DELETE' INSERT [DBO].[AUDIT_inventory] SELECT *,'DELETE' ,GETDATE() FROM DELETED
IF @ACT = 'UPDATE' INSERT [DBO].[AUDIT_inventory] SELECT *,'UPDATE' ,GETDATE() FROM INSERTED
Is there a tool that can report transaction log information? Such asreporting what tables/columns were updated, by whom and when,etc....Thanx.
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Hello
I am more of a reporting person, recently I was asked to create stored procedure for an upcoming ASP.NET
application.
We have a problem that we are facing and any suggestion would be very helpfull.
The problem is that we have like 8 differtent tables each with 10 to 15 columns in it.
The front end application has pages with save , update , delete button which are insert,update,delete
for each of the 8 tables
i.e they save , update , delete these 8 tables
They want to a way to Update , this audit table which stores information
like ---
Date
User
Table
Column name
Previous column name
new column name
So for each row that was updated in those 8 tables , each column will have the above fields updated as a row of data
Initially we thought about triggers but it will be like 60 triggers ...Is there a better or other way of handling this?
Any help is appreciated
Thanks
I want to log all changes made to a table (only updates, since there will be no deletes or inserts).
I would like to see the user who changed it, the date and time, fieldname, old value, new value.
If more fields are changed during the update, than add more records into the logging table.
What is best practise to achieve this?
Thanks,
Frans