Audit script

  • Hello, i want to create an audit script, to audit record updates inside a table, and i want to store on a table that information. I want to know how can i store on a column the name of the column that was modified (updated) on the table that I'm auditing, in order to track only the column that was update, the previous value and the new value, date, time and user that did the update. Somebody can tell me how can i do this?

  • Look through creating Triggers, if you want to keep track of DDL and some DML changes then Defualt trace would be handy.

    After looking at these if you still need any info give us a shout.

  • within a trigger, there is a couple of functions you can use you can use to determine if a column has changed:

    IF (UPDATE(columnname) ) returns true or false, if you are testing a single column, so you could do something like this:

    CREATE TRIGGER TR_WHATEVER

    ON WHATEVER

    FOR INSERT,UPDATE

    AS

    IF (UPDATE(DESCRIP) )

    BEGIN

    INSERT INTO AUDIT(WHATEVERID,NEWVAL,OLDVAL,UPDATEDDT)

    SELECT INSERTED.WHATEVERID,

    INSERTED.DESCRIP AS NEWVAL,

    DELETED.DESCRIP AS OLDVAL,

    GETDATE() AS UPDATEDDT

    FROM INSERTED

    INNER JOIN DELETED

    ON INSERTED.WHATEVERID=DELETED.WHATEVERID

    END

    the other function, COLUMNS_UPDATED, uses a bitmask, and references columns by their ordinal position...NOT by name, to determine whether the columns have had changes:

    /*Check whether columns 2 thru 8 have been updated.

    for example ,If any or all

    columns 2, 3 or 4 have been changed, create an audit record. The

    bitmask is: power(2,(2-1))+power(2,(3-1))+power(2,(4-1)) = 14. To test

    whether all columns 2, 3, and 4 are updated, use = 14 instead of > 0

    (below).

    this one specifically is for 32 thru 8 is:

    select power(2,(3-1))

    + power(2,(4-1))

    + power(2,(5-1))

    + power(2,(6-1))

    + power(2,(7-1))

    + power(2,(8-1)) = 252*/

    IF (substring(COLUMNS_UPDATED(),1,1) & 252 )>0

    --do stuff

    Lowell


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  • adonado (5/8/2009)


    I want to know how can i store on a column the name of the column that was modified (updated) on the table that I'm auditing, in order to track only the column that was update, the previous value and the new value, date, time and user that did the update.

    What do you want to do if more than one column was updated?

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  • Thank yo i will try it, and you know how can i get the name of the updated column?

  • using COLUMNS_UPDATED, you can't, i guess you'd have to write your trigger to do each column individually, if that's what you wanted to do:

    IF (UPDATE(DESCRIP) )

    BEGIN

    [same code example]

    END

    IF (UPDATE(COLUMN2) )

    BEGIN

    [same code example, just change the column names]

    END

    IF (UPDATE(COLUMN3) )

    BEGIN

    [same code example, just change the column names]

    END

    IF (UPDATE(COLUMN4) )

    BEGIN

    [same code example, just change the column names]

    END

    i would think it is easier to simply capture all the changes,and compare on demand for specific queiitons.

    Lowell


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