I have a windows 2012 server and will like to know how to audit DMLs on a table (delete, truncate, update) on this table, I want to see all T-Sql DML statement carried out on this table in a file.How can this be achieved using if possible something already built into SSMS.
View 4 RepliesHow can I take backup of Database Audit Specification ?
View 3 Replies View RelatedSQL server 2012, I tried to start Audit log from SSMS, I received following error.
Enable failed for audit error 33222, for more information see sql Server error log .
query ss.dm_os_ring_buffers
How can i Trace Database Audit specification Enable and Disable. i want to maintain log for enable or disable database audit specification.
View 4 Replies View RelatedIs there any possibility to override database audit specification file. suppose i want to change some logs forcefully . is it possible ?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI am currently re-writing an overnight index defrag procedure and would like to audit indexes in my database - logging the before defrag action" avg fragmentation value and "after defrag action" frag value in an audit table. This will be for all databases on the server. I have completed the vast majority of it (cycling though all the databases, detecting which indexes need reorganising or rebuilding and inserting the information into a table) but I cannot get the audit values working properly. For example, a sample row in my audit table would look like this:
ID Name DB Table frag_before frag_after
1 Index2 DB1 Table6 70.33456 0.03
2 Index7 DB1 Table9 45.98 1.2567etc
Dear Group,I would like to create an audit table that is created with a trigger thatreflects all the changes(insert, update and delete) that occur in table.Say I have a table withSubject_ID, visit_number, dob, weight, height, User_name, inputdateThe audit table would have .Subject_ID, visit_number, dob, weight, height, User_name, inputdate,edit_action, edit_reason.Where the edit_action would be insert, update, delete; the edit_reason wouldbe the reason given for the edit.Help with this would be great, since I am new to the world of triggers.Thanks,Jeff
View 1 Replies View RelatedI would like to do a dynamic audit for the tables ( columns which needs to audited will also change dynamically). For example,
I am having 3 tables, table1 table2 table3
User can select Table 1 ( col 1, col3, col4) and Table2 ( col 3 and col 5).
I want to achieve this functionality without any triggers or output clause, so only one option which is left is "ChangeDataCapture" ( to my knowledge). So i did a small POC. The problem here is, system captures all the field data even though value doesn't change, for example,
TableA
CountryId CountryCode CountryName
1 IND INDIA
Update TableA
Set CountryCode = 'INDI', CountryName = 'INDIA'
Where CountryId = 1
On running the above query, CDC stores the value for both the columns, but i don't want this. I only wanted to store the CountryCode value alone.
CREATE TABLE [dbo].tCountry(
CountryId bigint IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL Primary Key,
CountryName [varchar](50) NULL,
CountryCode [varchar](50) NULL,
CreateBy bigint
)
EXEC sys.sp_cdc_enable_db
[code]....
--See here, i want to display CountryName as NULL, because i didnt do any changes in this column
--Why am i asking this bcoz, Frm my front end application, i will send the complete list of columns and the values to the update query.
Select * from cdc.dbo_tCountry_CT Where __$operation in (3,4)
i'm in a bit of a bind at work. if anyone could help, i'd greatlyappreciate it.i have a web app connecting to a sql server using sql serverauthentication. let's say, for example, my login/password isdbUser/dbUser. the web app however, is using windows authentication.so if I am logged into the network as 'DOMAINEric', when I access myweb app, my web app knows that I am 'DOMAINEric'. but to the sqlserver db, I am user 'dbUser'.now, i for each table i have, i need to implement an audit table torecord all updates, inserts, deletes that occur against it. i wasgoing to do so with triggers. this is all fine for selects, inserts,and updates. for each table, i have an updatedby and an updatedate.for example, let's say i have a table:create table blah(id int,col1 varchar(10),updatedby varchar(30),updatedate datetime)and corresponding audit table:create audit_blah(id int,blah_id int,blah_col1 varchar(10),blah_updatedby varchar(1),blah_updatedate datetime)for update and insert triggers, i can know what to insert into theupdatedby column of audit_blah because it's in a corresponding row inblah. my web app knows what user is accessing the application, andcan insert that name into blah. blah's trigger will then insert thatname into audit_blah.however, in the case of a delete, i'm not passing in an 'updatedby',because i'm deleting. in this situation, how can the trigger knowwhat user is deleting? the db only knows that sql user 'dbUser' isdeleting, but doesn't know that 'dbUser' is deleting on behalf of'DOMAINEric'. is there any way for my app to inform the trigger toaccess my windows identity without having a corresponding row in thetable from which to pull that info?obviously, i could have each of my app's users log into SQL serverthrough Windows authentication; then i could just use SYSTEM_USER.but let's say, for performance's sake, it'd be better for me to useone sql server login. (i believe one user works better for connectionpooling purposes.) is there a way to get around this?(i'm hoping a built-in function exists that solves all my problems.)suggestions? resources?any help would be great appreciated.happy turkeys.Eric
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am trying to write triggers on each tables in my database to audit data changes. My AuditLog table consists of the following columns -
LoginName varchar(100) - user name
Action varchar(5) - this will store 'INSERT','UPDATE','DELETE'
TableName varchar(30) - name of the table updated
PrimaryKey int - primary key of the record updated
ColumnName varchar(30) - name of the column updated
OldValue varchar(1000) - old value converted to varchar
NewValue varchar(1000) - new value converted to varchar
RecUpdDate datetime - record update date.
This table design will work for tables with single column primary keys. However, it will not work for tables with composite primary keys. Any suggestions on how to make this work with composite primary keys? I prefer not to change the tables in my database to use single column primary key.
Thanks in advance.
I 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 RelatedI installed SQL server 2012 on a server and it has 6 databases.
Now i need to move a 12 GB sized table from DB1 to DB2 on sql server.
I am using change tracking for tracking changes to an OLTP database for daily data warehouse load. I am tracking changes on 4 tables:
Site, Well, GasEngine, GasField,
I am using an SSIS package for our DW load and on completion, I store the results of the queries above into my own ChangeTracking table. I then use this as the last synced version for each table which I then use for the next DW load. I have the following change tracking settings:
CHANGE_TRACKING = ON
(
CHANGE_RETENTION = 10 DAYS,
AUTO_CLEANUP = ON
)
Now, the Site and Well tables may not have any changes for a few weeks or months but the GasEngine table will have changes every half hour and the GasField table will have changes every week. I have recently received a NULL value for Site changes query (below) and the SSIS package fails.
Is this due to there being no changes within the 10 days retention period?? What can I do in order to maintain the changes?? Could I maybe update the scripts above to check if the response from the query is NULL and if yes, set the current synced version to the last synced version from my ChangeTracking table?
Also, when the 10 days retention period is up, will the change tracking change version counter continue on from the last change version?
I am new to programming trying hard to learn. I made a code for Views in mssql for the 2 tables below:I am wondering if I could make it 3, 4 or more tables at the same time. How can incorporate in the following codes I made.
Create View vwEmployeeInfoByGender
as
Select FirstName, MiddleName, FamilyName, Gender, BirthDate,
MaritalStatus
from tblEmployeeInfo
join tblGender
on tblEmployeeInfo.GenderID
= tblGender.GenderID
i need to display variables from one textbox to 2 or more tables in database, how do i do that?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am attempting to reach some Clipper tables through a 32-bit ODBC driver from a 64 bit SQL Server. As there is no 64 bit driver offered for Clipper, I am pursuing a solution similar to the one described here:
Creating a Linked Server with 64 bit SQL Server 2008 to MS Access
It involves using a SQL Express 32 bit instance as a bridge.
I have created a Linked Server on the 32 bit instance MTESTXPRESS as follows:
EXEC sp_addlinkedserver @server = N'ABDATA', @srvproduct=N'DataDirect 4.1', @provider=N'MSDASQL', @datasrc=N'ABServerCA'
On the 64 bit instance ALISTESTER I have another Linked Server as follow:
EXEC sp_addlinkedserver @server = N'ABACUS', @provider=N'SQLNCLI', @datasrc=N'ALISTESTERMTESTEXPRESS'
The suggestion is to then use a select statement such as:
SELECT * FROM OPENQUERY(ABACUS, 'SELECT COUNT(*) FROM ABDATA...ABBATCH')
Unfortunately, the DataDirect driver for MTESTEXPRESS will not recognize the 'ABDATA...ABBATCH' 3-part naming convention. The error message is:
An invalid schema or catalog was specified for the provider "MSDASQL" for linked server "ABDATA"
Is there some other way to select from the MTESTEXPRESS linked server?
I am learning the Optimizer from the book "Querying Microsoft SQL Server 2012" for certificate exam 70-461. I really cannot understand how it explains the number of possible ways to execute a query joining three tables. the pseudo-query is:
SELECT A.col5, SUM(C.col6) AS col6sum
FROM TableA AS A
INNER JOIN TableB AS B
ON A.col1 = B.col1
INNER JOIN TableC AS C
ON B.col2 = c.col2
WHERE A.col3 = constant 1
AND B.col4 = constant2
GROUP BY A.col5;
The book says:"Start with the FROM part. Which tables should SQL Server join first, TableA and TableB or TableB and TableC? And in each join, which of the two tables joined should be the left and which one the right table? The number of all possibilities is six, if the two joins are evaluated linearly, one after another."
Q1: How could it be six possibilities? From my understanding, lets say, if the SQL Server has to join A and B first, and then join C, in this case I can think of 4 possibilities, which are:
1. When A Join B, Left: A, Right: B.
When Join C, Left: result of A join B, Right: C
2. When A Join B, nbsp;
When Join C, nbsp;When A Join B, nbsp;
When Join C, nbsp;When A Join B, nbsp;
When Join C, "line-height:13.5px;">
Q2: The section following the previous question says there are 4 different types of join.."This already gives four options for each join. So far, there are 6 x 4 = 24 different options for only the FROM part of this query."
How can it be 6 x 4? My understanding is 4 is only for 1 join, but in our case, there are 2 joins, so it should be 6 x 4 x 4.
Just wonder if system base tables always use clustered index? I am using SQL Server 2005 and find sys.sysidxstats base table is using heap, not clustered index. Why?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI want to compare two tables and log the difference in new table with the fields as (old value,new value, column name). The column name should be the changes value column.
View 10 Replies View Relatedwe run 2008 std edition (I believe r2 on this server, will double check) and I need to find a needle in a haystack.
I am looking at two tables and would like to learn which, if any objects on same db updates these tables. I'd even live with any references to these tables. I already know sql agent is out of the picture. I'm looking for a static approach, not a monitoring one because its possible updates don't occur till month end.
Is there a way in sql server to query the answer to such a question using dmvs or something like dmvs? What if I get bold and want to search all db's on this server for objects that update my two tables even across dbs?
In the mean time, i'll look at scripting all triggers and procs , and doing a search on these table names in the scripts.
I don't know that I've ever seen a way to script all triggers before. Procs I can easily script from the object explorer details. But I'm not sure if in explorer details--> server objects --> triggers does what I hope it does.
I have a fundamental problem with how CDC works for bulk updates.When CDC enabled table is updated for single row - My CDC system tables its recording it as update (3 & 4) which is perfect and what it should be. No Complains!But when I do a bulk update in the same CDC enabled tables for the same columns - My CDC system tables its recording as delete and then insert (1 & 2). This is not correct and this is what my problem is. We used triggers before CDC we did not face this problem with triggers every thing was fine with triggers other than performance.The way how the CDC is handling the bulk update is a big problem for me because based on the output of CDC system tables we are doing some migration work to legacy system.
It will be impossible for me to go and change my migration logic scripts because we have 100's or procedures in it.Is it a know problem with CDC? Is there any solution in CDC when a bulk update happens on a table the CDC system tables record it as updates. I don't think CDC 'net changes' in this situation because the net change would show as single inserted row.If this can't be done with CDC then I have to completely abandon CDC and go back to triggers..
The views are in XYZ production database and user needs the list of indexes on the tables on which the views has been created.
query to find list of indexes on the tables on which the views has been created.
1. I need to make use of in memory engine for my pr-existed develop procedures ,tables ,index. do I need and code changes for application and how to store tables /indexes in OLTP memory
Assume table index may have primary key index as well.
2. If table with one primary index and 2 foreign constraints, 3 non clusters indexed. which one able o load to memory area and how t do that.
3. In memory is lock free zone. usually locks will happpen in RDMS context . how this works without locks.
In SQL Server 2014, how big for the block size is better for performance? 64 KB? 4 KB?
For normal database files, best practise is 64 KB disk block size. Not sure if it is same for memory-optimized filegroup.
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?
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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
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
Does anyone have any ideas how I can track when someone logged in and out of SQL Server and compile that information over a 3 month period?
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