I am evaluating demo version of Lockwood Tech Audit Tool and having problems with "undo" module.
When I click "UNDO" it not only freezes application but entire PC, did any of you experienced same sort of problem ???
Thanks
I just got their demo but having problems with running ApexSQLDiff , any feedback how it works for others?
Maybe there are some other tools worth looking at ?
Thanks for any suggestions
The Error:
An attempt to attach an auto-named database for file C:UsersCodeFreakDocumentsVisual Studio 2005WebSitesPersonalSiteApp_Dataaspnetdb.mdf failed. A database with the same name exists, or specified file cannot be opened, or it is located on UNC share.
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I've tried allowing permissions I'VE EVEN TRIED ALLOWING EVERYONE! I've tried right clicking the datasource under the datasource explorer and clicking 'detatch.' It works Locally but fails when i pusblish with IIS. Whats with these SQL databases that just dont want to work with IIS 7 ?
Published with: IIS 7
I've tried removing the "user instance."
This is User roles and all that which uses SQL Server 2005.
So my question is, How do i publish a website with SQL Server 2005 database?
Please give it to me step by step as im still quite a newbie.
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
Hi All,
We use Cisco Call Manager 4.1(3), We use RTMT Tool to monitor our devices & now Daily once i get a error message as Directory connection failed . Monitored precanned object has value of 0., can anyone tell me what could be the excat cause or how can we troubleshoot this issue or what services should we check on our call manager to overcome this error.
Thanks & Regards
Sameer P Khakhar
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???
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Something happened, they are sending me to this conf on May 23-28. This is the first conference since 1999 that I would be attending. Personally I consider this to be the best conference, and I can attend it every day. But it would be interesting to see some of you. Anybody else going?
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ZYT
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OK, some rough details to start with. We run a small but fast-growing vehicle tracking system that sends back a LOT of data via GPRS to our SQL 2000 Enterprise server hosted on a dedicated server in London. The physical machine is a P4 3.2Ghz Dual-core Dell rackmount with 2GB RAM and 2 x 76GB SCSI disks in a RAID 1 array. This is partitioned into a 15GB C: partition and a 51GB D: partition. The system paging file is set to be 1536MB and is on the C: partition. The server is used for everything we do... it runs Smartermail email server (only about 5 or 6 domains and a few users, hardly used at all), SQL server as mentioned, web server & the proxy software that receives incoming data from our tracking devices.
There are 9 or 10 active databases on the SQL server. 8 of them take up less than a gigabyte between them and are sparingly used. The main “active” database on the SQL server is the tracking system – and this is big... As our tracking devices send in data every 10 – 30 seconds, the database is hit with hundreds of thousands of events per day. On a weekday, some half a million rows of data are written to the main “events” table on the database. Over 7 days from 26th November to 2nd December, almost exactly 3 million rows of data were written to the events table. We undertake to hold 3 months or so of data “live” for our customers and I periodically archive data off. I’ve been too busy to archive recently and the database is holding data on the events table going back to July 1st. The physical .mdf file is just under 30GB on partition d: at present. The plan is to drop the active data stored to only 1 – 2 months, but this still leaves a 12GB .mdf file.
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Our non-tech MD thinks the way forward is to have one database per customer and can't understand when I tell him I think that's bad as it will create all the system tables and bits & pieces for EVERY customer if we do that, right? Also it would be a nightmare to add a new column to a table as I'd have to update every single version of the database too... I want to avoid this unless I'm missing something and this is actually the best way to go forward?
I've had someone mention horizontal partitioning to me? not sure what implications this has to coding and table naming? Or is it all one big database spread among separate servers?
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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
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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
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cellstar corp.
I am currently developing a system which uses SQL Server 7 as its repositry. One of the systems requirements is the ability to be able to record any changes made to the data, and by whom. In other words I need to store the before and after with a userid.
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Many thanks
Martin Fisher
Is there away to track which user had deleted and object(table),
the transaction log has that information but you can't read it and
the error log doesn't log such info. Any advice would be appricated, thanks.
Can anyone help me audit connections to databases?
My objective is to tidy a poorly maintained set of servers - especially permissions. (Any suggestion what-so-ever, would be welcome)
Specifically I'm now looking to audit who accesses which databases. As a first step I just want to be able to record database open actions.
I think profiler can help.
My aim is a list of NTuser, Server, Database, When
I've tried profiling Event Object:Opened but NOTHING happens.
Other profile events are OK.
So the simple questions are, what makes this event fire or what is the approriate event (or other method) to acheive this objective.
Note I've looking into auditing - but this doesn't provide me with which database is accessed.
I could, I suppose, use Locks acquired
Hi folks. Any ideas on the best way to creat an audit trail for ms sql 2000?
I want to capture all tables affected by UPDATE, INSERT and DELETE queries.
Any help would be appreciated!
Many thanks!
Kunal
Hi Folks,
Have a scenario where we have to audit all our databases and servers for changes in security accross the servers.
We have a central montioring server where we pull SQL metadata at regular intervals. In this instance we are looking to have before and after snapshots of the SQL system tables.
For the logins this is fine as there is a last updated field in the syslogins table. We can tell when a new user has been added , remmoved or the login has changed ie the login as been added to sysadmin fixed server role... etc Perfect !!!
What Im trying to work out now is how I can do this for object level permsisions. Have looked at sysprotects but no joy. If a user or a role has been granted select or update on a table... How can I tell based on before and after snap shots of the system tables what permissons have changed and whom have they changed for...
Help ......
Hi all,
I would just like to ask whats the best way to make some audit on some of the tables in a MS SQL server, what i'm planning to have is to have a table which can contain all changes/inserts/deletion of some given tables, my first idea was to have this:
AuditTable that have the following fields:
AuditID, TableName, FieldName, OldValue, NewValue, UpdateBy, UpdateDate
then in all the given tables, i'll have insert, update and delete trigger, the issue comes down to the trigger, what will be the best way to have that trigger written in a way that it can be use for other tables as well? say if a table have more then 20 fields, I don't want to declare 20 var and compare them 1 by1, and if there is a diff, then i insert to the audittable, I want something that it can loop and (if possible) be able to use by other table as well, so the field name etc can get from sysobjects, but then how can you code it in a way that it can do that?
Or is there any better way to get the same result? currently i have an audit table for each table i want to audit on and its just wasting space, any help will be great.
Thanks,
Does MSSQL 2000 and above have an auditing feature? We have a requirement for tracking activity and history on a particular table. I realize this can be accomplished by a simple trigger but I was wondering if MSSQL had a feature that would accomplish this.
joe
I turned the Audit ALL option on SQLServer instance "security" tab and restarted the SQLServer but do not see any information logged in SQLServer Logs though I tried to access databases and logged in a couple of times through Query Analyzer. Why is that no logging happened and how can I get this fixed?
Any help is appreciated.
Vinnie
Hey everyone,
This is my first question here for a long while, so be extra nice ;)
I am doing an audit on some of my sql server 2000s and I would to know if its possible to automate the collection of some of the data.
Firstly I would like to be able to query the domain account that SQLSERVER and SQLAGENT are running on, in my case the agent and service account will alaways be the same, but the account name maybe different depending on what server it is.
Secondly I would like to be able to query whether the account SQL server is running on is local admin of the server...I know some of you will say the SQL account has to be local admin but with the right registry and folder level permissions it is not necessary for the account to be local admin. This was a requirement from a very strict security audit.
A table that stores all [updated | deleted] transactions in a database
i.e.
TableName, TableId, ColumnName, ValueType, NewValue, OldValue, DateChanged
or
A copy of each individual table, which could add up to a lot of tables
Hi,
We are looking to purchase SQL Audit tool. Which one do you recommend for SQL Server 2000 Standard Edition and SQL 2005 Enterprise Edition.
Thanks,
Debi.