Transaction Log Auditing
Jul 20, 2005Is there a tool that can report transaction log information? Such as
reporting what tables/columns were updated, by whom and when,
etc....Thanx.
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Auditing SQL Server 2005 Through Transaction Log
Jun 4, 2007Hello,
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
Error 8525: Distributed Transaction Completed. Either Enlist This Session In A New Transaction Or The NULL Transaction.
May 31, 2008Hi All
I'm getting this when executing the code below. Going from W2K/SQL2k SP4 to XP/SQL2k SP4 over a dial-up link.
If I take away the begin tran and commit it works, but of course, if one statement fails I want a rollback. I'm executing this from a Delphi app, but I get the same from Qry Analyser.
I've tried both with and without the Set XACT . . ., and also tried with Set Implicit_Transactions off.
set XACT_ABORT ON
Begin distributed Tran
update OPENDATASOURCE('SQLOLEDB','Data Source=10.10.10.171;User ID=*****;Password=****').TRANSFERSTN.TSADMIN.TRANSACTIONMAIN
set REPFLAG = 0 where REPFLAG = 1
update TSADMIN.TRANSACTIONMAIN
set REPFLAG = 0 where REPFLAG = 1 and DONE = 1
update OPENDATASOURCE('SQLOLEDB','Data Source=10.10.10.171;User ID=*****;Password=****').TRANSFERSTN.TSADMIN.WBENTRY
set REPFLAG = 0 where REPFLAG = 1
update TSADMIN.WBENTRY
set REPFLAG = 0 where REPFLAG = 1
update OPENDATASOURCE('SQLOLEDB','Data Source=10.10.10.171;User ID=*****;Password=****').TRANSFERSTN.TSADMIN.FIXED
set REPFLAG = 0 where REPFLAG = 1
update TSADMIN.FIXED
set REPFLAG = 0 where REPFLAG = 1
update OPENDATASOURCE('SQLOLEDB','Data Source=10.10.10.171;User ID=*****;Password=****').TRANSFERSTN.TSADMIN.ALTCHARGE
set REPFLAG = 0 where REPFLAG = 1
update TSADMIN.ALTCHARGE
set REPFLAG = 0 where REPFLAG = 1
update OPENDATASOURCE('SQLOLEDB','Data Source=10.10.10.171;User ID=*****;Password=****').TRANSFERSTN.TSADMIN.TSAUDIT
set REPFLAG = 0 where REPFLAG = 1
update TSADMIN.TSAUDIT
set REPFLAG = 0 where REPFLAG = 1
COMMIT TRAN
It's got me stumped, so any ideas gratefully received.Thx
SSIS, Distributed Transaction Completed. Either Enlist This Session In A New Transaction Or The NULL Transaction.
Feb 22, 2007I have a design a SSIS Package for ETL Process. In my package i have to read the data from the tables and then insert into the another table of same structure.
for reading the data i have write the Dynamic TSQL based on some condition and based on that it is using 25 different function to populate the data into different 25 column. Tsql returning correct data and is working fine in Enterprise manager. But in my SSIS package it show me time out ERROR.
I have increase and decrease the time to catch the error but it is still there i have tried to set 0 for commandout Properties.
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and
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1. On an update to a row, duplicate that row in another table with
identical rows, except for perhaps the extra columns which represent
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2. On an update to a row, check which fields were updated. Then in a
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new value of the field.
I'm wondering about the pros and cons of each. More specifically, do
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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
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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,
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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
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Feb 6, 2007I am getting this error :Distributed transaction completed. Either enlist this session in a new
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An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web
request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and
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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
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IF EXISTS (SELECT TOP 1 1 FROM INSERTED) SET @INS = 1
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IF @INS = 1 AND @DEL = 0 SET @ACT = 'INSERT'
IF @DEL = 1 AND @INS = 0 SET @ACT = 'DELETE'
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BEGIN
-- CREATE A MEMORY TABLE CONTAINING THE FIELDS AND TYPES OF THE TABLE
DECLARE @MEMTABLE TABLE
(
ID INT IDENTITY
,COLUMNAME SYSNAME
,TYPENAME VARCHAR(20)
)
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INSERT @MEMTABLE
(COLUMNAME,TYPENAME)
SELECT NAME,TYPE_NAME(XTYPE)
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DECLARE @MAX INTEGER
DECLARE @SQLSTR AS VARCHAR(8000)
DECLARE @CURCOL SYSNAME
DECLARE @COLTYPE AS VARCHAR(10)
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SET @CUR=1
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BEGIN
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EXEC(@SQLSTR)
END
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