Logging Table Activity
Mar 10, 2005
Hi peeps,
We have a great big database (90gb) which has been populated (monopolised) by our finance team, and its full of tables that probably aren't being used at all. But know knows whats being used and what isn't or they don't have the time to go through it with me.
So I have decided to implement a procedure that logs table activity on this database, and if for example a table isn't used for a month then it will be archived off and zipped up.
I have a few ideas in my head how I can acheive this, but I am looking for some opinions and ideas from you guys?
Thanks in advance
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Mar 6, 2007
Good morning all... first time poster here.
Very new to SQL server, and the database world in general. We're an old Oracle shop, and our Oracle dba's are pretty set in their ways and aren't too excited about supporting SQL server. Understandable, change is tough sometimes. Being the new kid in town, I have made it my goal to wrangle our SQL 2000/2005 environment and carve out my own little niche.
My first order of business is to do some general cleanup and documentation. So, my question is this... is there a way to determine when the last few user connection to a database were? I have a host of databases that I suspect are no longer in use, but no one can seem to identify them. Before I delete them, I definitely want to make sure they aren't being used by some off-the-beaten-path app that I am unaware of. I did a search here and a general Google search that was fruitless. I'm not the beast Googler though. :)
Any advice here will be greatly appreciated!
-Alan-
edit: My idea of a solution would be a query to show, say, the last 10 connections to a particular database. Username, date, time, etc. would be spectacular.
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Sep 8, 2015
I use following trigger to stop user "smith" if he try to connect through SSMS to My Server:
create TRIGGER [trg_connection_MyServer]
ON ALL SERVER WITH EXECUTE AS 'Smith'
FOR LOGON
AS
BEGIN
IF ORIGINAL_LOGIN()= 'Smith'
begin
if exists (SELECT 1 FROM sys.dm_exec_sessions
WHERE (program_name like 'Microsoft SQL Server%' and original_login_name = 'Smith') )
ROLLBACK;
end
I want to log this information or send emal incase, this user try to connect through SSMS, so that I can catch it. How can I do this, if I use insert command it rollsback everything and I can't do any activity.
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Oct 17, 2007
Hi,
I decided to use the SQL Server log provider to store logging data of all my Integration Services packages. I also created some reports about this data for operating purposes.
I have a problem occurs the name of the executing package is not always written to the log,but the name of the single task which failed. But that is not very useful information for operating, because I do not see any chance to get the name of the package by the information which is logged in the sysdtslog90 table in the database which I defined for SSIS Logging.
How do I configure the package to always log the package information into the table, too?
Best regards,
Stefoon
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Feb 13, 2008
How to find a last activity happened on a table?
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Nov 1, 2001
Hi Friends,
Is there any way to find the time when the last DDL was happened in a table?
For example: The time when the new column(s) were added into a table or changed the datatype.
Thanks for the help in advance.
--Raj
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Jul 20, 2005
Hello,I have an application that will be logging to a SQL Server 2000database user user activity from several Windows 2003 terminalservers. This information will be retrieved by monitoring theSecurity logs of these servers (this part I know how to accomplishalready).A table in the database, tblLogEntries, will contain the followingfields:- ID = autoincrementing int- LogTime = Date/Time the user activity was recorded in the securitylog- Username = User's login ID that the activity was recorded with- Type = int, referencing a lookup table with the values of Logon,Logoff, and possible other future items- Server = The name of the server the activity was recorded on.The only question I have is, can you offer a way to process the totaluser login time during a given range using T-SQL.For Example...Given the table data:ID LogTime Username Type Server1 10-10-2003 8:30:00 Tom Logon SERVER-A2 10-10-2003 8:45:00 Sarah Logon SERVER-A3 10-10-2003 16:45:00 Tom Logoff SERVER-A4 10-10-2003 17:00:00 Sarah Logoff SERVER-A5 10-11-2003 8:30:00 Tom Logon SERVER-A6 10-11-2003 8:45:00 Sarah Logon SERVER-A7 10-11-2003 16:30:00 Sarah Logoff SERVER-A8 10-11-2003 17:15:00 Tom Logoff SERVER-AHow would you receive the output:User Logon Total Time for SERVER-ATom 17.0 hrsSarah 16.0 hrsI know I can handle this type of processing on my ASP.NET front-end,but I'm curious as to how easily it can be done by the database,itself.Thanks in advance for your assistance.
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Nov 29, 2007
Working on a "social networking site" and would like to have something that records a member's interactions within the site.So for instance if a member uploads a photo, I would like to record it and then display it as "[Member] added photo" with a link to the photo. Also, if a friend is accepted as a friend "[Member1] is now friends with [Member2]" and also if a member posts a comment on the forums "[Member] posted message in [ForumName]" with link to post.This is very similar to Facebook's News Feeds and MySpace Friend Updates.The only way I can think of having this is having an Activity table with a field for each different Id I want to record and an associated list of tracked Actions:Activity:idmemberIdactionTypePhotoIdMember2IdForumIdThen there would be the ActionType tableactionIdNameThe biggest problem I see with this solution is that I would need to add a new field in the Activity table for each different type of activity I would like to track. This could get pretty big as I begin to track more and more activity items.Is there some way I can generalize this. - Andy
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Oct 1, 2007
We have a web-based third-party application that has both background processes and user activity requests running in the same database (SQL Server 2005 SP2). The problem is that a background process will start a long-running transaction and hold an exclusive lock on a few rows in a given table (a small table, <100 rows). The web clients need to scan this same table, but when their "select *" statements get to those locked row(s), the web client queries stall waiting for that exclusive lock to be released. This effectively brings the entire web front end to a halt because all clients must hit this table for each user action. I realize that this is the classic lock condition that multiversioning databases like Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server Compact Edition, and other databases do not suffer because they don't use shared read locks like SQL Server. But since we're on SQL Server for this app, what is the way to get around this problem? Modifying the clients to use WITH (NOLOCK) is not an option... there will be major consistency issues unless the clients run in Read Committed or higher. Any ideas? We could tweak this app if needed. Does SQL Server 2008 introduce multiversioning or at least some mechanism to get around this problem? I did not see it mentioned on the Microsoft site, but maybe I missed it. Thanks in advance.
Austin
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Apr 22, 2008
Hi, I have been struggling trying to design a query that will alow be to select the most recent date in a table
and I'm obviously not having much luck
This is basically the table layout, note each employee can have multiple rows with different dates
Employee_ID
Last_Name
First_Name
Evaluation_Date
Evaluation_Score
1
Jones
Tom
01/04/07
40
1
Jones
Tom
01/.12/07
50
1
Jones
Tom
04/01/08
60
2
Smith
Ed
02/14/05
70
2
Smith
Ed
03/18/06
80
3
Brown
John
06/23/04
80
3
Brown
John
12/23/04
79
3
Brown
John
01/07/06
50
3
Brown
John
10/22/08
69
What I'd like to do would be to write some thing that would return the following, just the last date of the evaluation & whatever relevant data is in the table
Employee_ID
Last_Name
First_Name
Evaluation_Date
Evaluation_Score
1
Jones
Tom
04/01/08
60
2
Smith
Ed
03/18/06
80
3
Brown
John
10/22/08
69
I've looked at select distinct and the date operatives with out any success.
Thanks Much
Vince
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Jun 18, 2007
Greetings,
I am developing a package on my local workstation. I have defined two logging service providers. One is for SQL Server and the other is for the Windows Event Log. I am using the Dts.Log method in a script task to write log entries.
Logging is working properly with the SQL Server provider and rows are being inserted into the sysdtslog90 table. However, the only events that are being logged in the Windows Event Log are the package start and end events which I believe SSIS is doing automatically anyway.
Is there something I need to do to enable WIndows Event Log logging other than defining a log provider and making sure it is checked active? Won't SSIS write to two different logs with one Dts.Log call? Any ideas on what might be going wrong with my approach?
Thanks,
BCB
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Aug 9, 2006
Hello,
When I enable logging where is the table name specified for SQL Server?
Can I specify the table name?
Thanks,
Michael
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May 9, 2000
Is it possible to disable the logging operations for insert/update/delete in the transaction file for certain tables?
I have an application where I have to write temporary tables for calculations and printing and all the insert/update/delete absolutely don't have to be logged. They get deleted after use anyway.
Thomas Schoch
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Oct 11, 2007
Is it possible to log the results of a SQL Agent job to a specific table?
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Can someone give instructions on how to log a SQL Agent job and/or steps within the job to a specific table?
Thanks
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Mar 18, 2008
Hi y'all, I am doing some searching in the archived threads, but I have a need to copy a table in a database to a new table in the same database, but the new table will be just a table with test data. There are several million rows in the table and I want to do the copy without logging the new inserts in the transaction log.
Is there an easy way to do this? I found this in my search efforts so far, but am just wondering if there is an easier/better way to accomplish what I want to do.
BTW, I normally wouldn't care, but the boss is complaining that it is taking too long to do the copy for a different team, so asked if I knew a way to copy data to a new table without logging. I don't, so here I am ;)
Here is what I found so far:Following 3 things need to be done
1) create table as not logged initially
2) set autocommit=off
3) and activate the not logged initially option
Now the inserts happen without the use of transaction logs
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May 21, 2004
Hello, everyone:
I want to check how many users are using a special database and table. How to do that? Thanks.
ZYT
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Sep 12, 2005
I recently read the project real ETL design best practices whitepaper. I too, want to do custom logging as I do today, and also use SSIS logging. The paper recommended using the variable system::PackageExecutionId to tie the 2 logging methods together.
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Jul 9, 2014
I understand that minimal logging can occur on a non clustered indexed heap as long as [URL] ...
*not replicated
*tablock is used
*table is empty
The following test seems to contradict this
In the test I create a non indexed heap, insert some record and check the log, then repeat the test on an indexed heap.
The results suggest that even though the conditions for minimal logging into a indexed heap are met, minimal logging is not happening although it does happen on an non indexed heap. What am I doing wrong?
CREATE DATABASE logtest
GO
USE logtest
GO
CREATE TABLE test (field varchar(100))
GO
CHECKPOINT
[Code] ....
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Jun 20, 2015
Have an SSIS package running great in 2008R2. It generates several flat files based on inline database queries. The first step of the package inserts a record into a log stats table and the last step of the package updates this record with the package name, run time and execution status. Now I need to add the records counts for each flat file to the log table.Â
Is there a way I can update one field for run counts with each of the counts for each file. So the [run counts] table column would look something like:
file1: 43522
file2: 645367
file3: 7883
Is it possible to store the record counts and flat file names in variables then concat them at the end when updating this record?
Or, is a better way to just insert/update a new record for each flat file step and log the counts for that file for its own record?
In either case, how I can capture the file count and pass that to the update statement.
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Jun 5, 2015
In my package there are 10 DFT.
Each DFT have source > Tranformation > Conditionsplit > Rowcount_Transformation >  Oledb Command
                                                                               Â
> Rowcount_Transformation1 >Â Oledb Command1
                                                                               Â
> Rowcount_Transformation2 >Â Oledb Command2
                                                                               Â
> Rowcount_Transformation3 >Â Oledb Command3
All update hapend on diffrent Table.I want to log in Audit table .
My audit table like
Table_Name  Insert_count Update_count
How can I log the package having multiple OLEDB Destination.
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Oct 10, 2007
I want to ship 500,000 aged transactions each night to an archive table and delete them from their source table in one or more logical units of work (LUW). Each row is approx 60 bytes and there is only one non clustered index on the source table presently.
I'm trying to weigh the pros and cons of 3 alternatives. One of them would basically insert the non-aged rows into tempdb, ship the aged records, truncate the table and then insert the tempdb records back into their source all in the same LUW.
For this alternative, I'd at least like to turn off logging when the records get inserted into tempdb as I dont see any value in logging that part of the activity. Is this possible?
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Nov 9, 1999
What is the best to produce user activity log ? Using triggers (insert, delete, update) is rather heavy (?) operation. Has anyone used SQL Profiler for that ? In log should be: who, what, when, workstation, table, changed fields, some data key values.
Harri
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Dec 3, 2007
Dear friends,
I'm working on an entity relationship diagram about a mice farm.
Let's say we have a very very basic diagram like this:
MOUSE "is in" CAGE
For example, this gives
Mouse "n°1500" is in cage "AAA"
Mouse "n°1501" is in cage "BBB"
One operator can take one mouse and put it into another cage, for
example the first line becomes
Mouse n°1500 is in cage CCC
Now, I was asked to track any movement... I ask myself: do I need to
add
OPERATOR "moves" MOUSE
so that I have
Operator "John" moves Mouse "n°1500" on "Monday 3rd, 2007" at "5 PM"
from "AAA" to "CCC"?
or this kind of logging is provided some way by SQL server?
Thanx a lot for any hint.
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Apr 17, 2000
I have registered a server on to my client machine successfully,but I am not finding the current activity item in the management folder on EM.How do I see the current activity on the server.Do I need to be SA for that server?My machine has NT workstation with SQL server 7.0 on it.Any one to help?
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Aug 12, 1999
When viewing Current Activity, nothing shows up.
If i run sp_who, the return is normal.
If I run sp_who2, the following message is returned. (it also is returned randomly while using function in EM such as Backup/Restore.)
Msg 268, Level 16, State 1
You cannot run SELECT INTO in this database. The DBO would have to run sp_dboption to enable this option.
What is it??? It's buggin me......
Dano
p.s. I remember a similar problem in the past, it had to do with turning truncate on checkpoint in one of the system databases msdb/master/tempdb or something like that. I turned off all Trunc. and Select/Bulk options on these...
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Oct 27, 2005
I have a requirment to create a activity log to log all changes that
take place in my tables as they happen. All my Inserts,updates & Deletes take place inside stored procs. A windows .NET application calls the stored procs and passes the data set to the stored procs to execute them on a Sql server 2000 database.
When an update statement is run inside my stored proc, the dataset only passes me the new values. but,i will need the old value from the database before the update takes place to report in my activity log. What is the best way to do it ?
My activity log shold report a description like this
"Name Changed from 'Robert Johnson'(old value) to 'Bob Johnson'(New Value)"
Though i can do a select from the tables to get the old values and match the new values to get the differences before running the update statements, it is too much work as i have well over 100 stored procs in my application and i have to check for every single field value in a table. If only one column changed in a table containg 20 columns, i would still have to check for 20 columns before determining which fields changed.
Can any one suggest me a better solution to report the old values and new values for all the updates that take place in a database through stored Procedures.
Thanks
Reo
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Apr 10, 2008
Is there a way to allow a user to run activity monitor without making that user system admin
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Apr 23, 2008
Hi experts,
I just want to know how can i kill all the processes of a database
if the database have more than 100 connections.This is for the purpose of restoring a database.
RKNAIR
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Jun 5, 2008
I usually run this command in SQL 2000.
Which tells me what is running with all the sql code statements.
Is there an alternative command to run in SQL 2005...rather than using the Reports - i find it easier to execute sp i called this sp_now.
set nocount on
declare @handle binary(20),
@spid smallint,
@rowcnt smallint,
@output varchar(500)
declare ActiveSpids CURSOR FOR
select sql_handle, spid
from sysprocesses
where sql_handle <> 0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--and spid <> @@SPID
order by cpu desc
OPEN ActiveSpids
FETCH NEXT FROM ActiveSpids
INTO @handle,
@spid
set @rowcnt = @@CURSOR_ROWS
print '===================='
print '= CURRENT ACTIVITY ='
print '===================='
print ' '
set @output = 'ACTIVE SPIDS: ' + convert(varchar(4),@rowcnt)
print @output
WHILE (@@FETCH_STATUS = 0)
BEGIN
print ' '
print ' '
print 'O' + replicate('x',120) + 'O'
print 'O' + replicate('x',120) + 'O'
print ' '
print ' '
print ' '
select 'loginame' = left(loginame, 30),
'hostname' = left(hostname,30),
'datagbase' = left(db_name(dbid),30),
'spid' = str(spid,4,0),
'block' = str(blocked,5,0),
'phys_io' = str(physical_io,8,0),
'cpu(mm:ss)' = str((cpu/1000/60),6) + ':' + case when left((str(((cpu/1000) % 60),2)),1) = ' ' then stuff(str(((cpu/1000) % 60),2),1,1,'0') else str(((cpu/1000) % 60),2) END ,
'mem(MB)' = str((convert(float,memusage) * 8192.0 / 1024.0 / 1024.0),8,2),
'program_name' = left(program_name,50),
'command' = cmd,
'lastwaittype' = left(lastwaittype,15),
'login_time' = convert(char(19),login_time,120),
'last_batch' = convert(char(19),last_batch,120),
'status' = left(status, 10),
'nt_username' = left(nt_username,20)
from master..sysprocesses
where spid = @spid
print ' '
print ' '
-- Dump the inputbuffer to get an idea of what the spid is doing
dbcc inputbuffer(@spid)
print ' '
print ' '
-- Use the built-in function to show the exact SQL that the spid is running
select * from ::fn_get_sql(@handle)
FETCH NEXT FROM ActiveSpids
INTO @handle,
@spid
END
close ActiveSpids
deallocate ActiveSpids
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER OFF
GO
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
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Oct 6, 2005
Hello All,
I am new at this site and new at using SQL also.... I was wondering if anyone could help me out with my prob...
I have set up an SQL 2000 server and made some accounts which my friends are using to log onto my server.. Is there a way I could keep a check on who is doin what or maintain a user log....
Many Thanks,
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Apr 10, 2007
Is there a way to give access to non-admins on ACTIVITY MONITOR?
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I think, therefore I am - Rene Descartes
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Sep 10, 2007
Hi,
I have a problem with Job Activity Monitor.
I have a SSIS which copies data from a table to a flat file. The connection string of this file is variable and the file is reused if not exists and is created if exists.
When I run the SSIS manually from my microsoft visual studio it works properly. However, when I run this SSIS from the Job Activity Monitor, I get the following error:
Message
Executed as user: REDCAMadminsql2k5. Microsoft (R) SQL Server Execute Package Utility Version 9.00.3042.00 for 64-bit Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1984-2005. All rights reserved. Started: 8:41:10 AM Error: 2007-09-10 08:48:04.99 Code: 0xC020200E Source: Crear Historico Historico [1] Description: Cannot open the datafile "\srvnfileHISTORICOSCAJEROSOFI3210C01OFI3210C01_2007-7X.txt". End Error Error: 2007-09-10 08:48:04.99 Code: 0xC004701A Source: Crear Historico DTS.Pipeline Description: component "Historico" (1) failed the pre-execute phase and returned error code 0xC020200E. End Error DTExec: The package execution returned DTSER_FAILURE (1). Started: 8:41:10 AM Finished: 8:48:53 AM Elapsed: 462.234 seconds. The package execution failed. The step failed.
Any idea?
Thanks.
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Aug 2, 2001
Hello,
Can anyone guide me besides any third party tool is there a way to find out all the activities of the connection till it got connected.
Thanks
Sejal
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