Auditing User Actions

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Auditing User Actions

shohelr2003

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March 6, 2013 at 4:48 am

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Dear,
I want to see all DML operations performed by a specific computer to track the user activities over database. What can I do for that?
If you have better suggestions, please suggest me.
Please help me to do this.
Thanks
Akbar

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Thinknook SSCrazy Points: 2531 More actions · Answer 1

If you have Enterprise (or Developer) edition you could implement Database-Level Action Audit, which includes DML actions. I haven't personally implemented this level of auditing, but I can't see why it wont serve your purpose.

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Lowell SSC Guru Points: 323504 More actions · Answer 2

you could also consider a server side trace, with a filter on the HOSTNAME property to match the machine you want to watch

the problem with that is it's possible to change the hostname parameter if the user has access to the connection string(see screenshot below) ;

i posted a sample DML trace in this post that you could consider modifying: that trace is watching a specific login, and not machine.

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost1426977.aspx

Lowell

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