Link Session info to CDC or in other words Auditing with CDC

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  • Very nice article! I like this idea. You can also add the SPID of the session that spawned the trigger using @@SPID, and once you have that value, you also open doing things like grabbing data like the SQL text or query plan or session settings via the various DMVs.


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  • For months I had done the whole data generation from within costly triggers, when the cost became very expensive I went back to using CDC but having done all kind of tricks in triggers initially opened my mind to combining triggers with CDC 🙂

    Initially I started getting the DBCC Inputbuffer to get the sql statement that initiated the DML (during the trigger execution that is the only way to find the root DML), later on I realized I did not have much need for it and wanted to get out of the trigger as fast and removed it. To store the spid and analyze it later makes more sense, with no overhead during the trigger execution.

    I wanted to point out the select statement with Before and After values at the end of the script, it's does the trick of displaying what's changed only in a more Audit like session, using the values clause to unpivot the data costing very few too.

  • Great stuff.

    Wondering if there is a way to extend this to include application information, like the application username and ip address that triggered the CRUD operation. We are using NHibernate to generate the SQL and we need to be able to audit changes and know who did it and from where.

    Any feedback would be appreciated.

    Thanks

  • You can always retrieve more information from system views or dmv's as below. Whatever information you will want to pull out by testing local session and whatever is available, then you will change the table structure that will hold the data and the insert statement in the trigger if that's what you are looking for.

    -- older version but still supported

    SELECT [SPID], [kpid], [blocked], [waittype], [waittime], [lastwaittype], [waitresource], [dbid], [uid], [cpu], [physical_io], [memusage], [login_time], [last_batch], [ecid], [open_tran], [status], [sid], [hostname], [program_name], [hostprocess], [cmd], [nt_domain], [nt_username], [net_address], [net_library], [loginame], [CONTEXT_INFO], [sql_handle], [stmt_start], [stmt_end], [request_id]

    FROM master.sys.sysprocesses (NOLOCK) WHERE SPID = @@SPID

    -- newer versions

    SELECT [session_id], [most_recent_session_id], [connect_time], [net_transport], [protocol_type], [protocol_version], [endpoint_id], [encrypt_option], [auth_scheme], [node_affinity], [num_reads], [num_writes], [last_read], [last_write], [net_packet_size], [client_net_address], [client_tcp_port], [local_net_address], [local_tcp_port], [connection_id], [parent_connection_id], [most_recent_sql_handle] FROM sys.dm_exec_connections (NOLOCK) WHERE session_id = @@SPID

    SELECT [session_id], [login_time], [HOST_NAME], [program_name], [host_process_id], [client_version], [client_interface_name], [security_id], [login_name], [nt_domain], [nt_user_name], [status], [CONTEXT_INFO], [cpu_time], [memory_usage], [total_scheduled_time], [total_elapsed_time], [endpoint_id], [last_request_start_time], [last_request_end_time], [READS], [writes], [logical_reads], [is_user_process], [text_size], [LANGUAGE], [date_format], [date_first], [QUOTED_IDENTIFIER], [ARITHABORT], [ANSI_NULL_DFLT_ON], [ANSI_DEFAULTS], [ANSI_WARNINGS], [ANSI_PADDING], [ANSI_NULLS], [CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL], [transaction_isolation_level], [LOCK_TIMEOUT], [DEADLOCK_PRIORITY], [row_count], [prev_error], [original_security_id], [original_login_name], [last_successful_logon], [last_unsuccessful_logon], [unsuccessful_logons], [group_id] FROM sys.dm_exec_sessions (NOLOCK) WHERE session_id = @@SPID

    SELECT [session_id], [request_id], [start_time], [status], [command], [sql_handle], [statement_start_offset], [statement_end_offset], [plan_handle], [database_id], [USER_ID], [connection_id], [blocking_session_id], [wait_type], [wait_time], [last_wait_type], [wait_resource], [open_transaction_count], [open_resultset_count], [transaction_id], [CONTEXT_INFO], [percent_complete], [estimated_completion_time], [cpu_time], [total_elapsed_time], [scheduler_id], [task_address], [READS], [writes], [logical_reads], [text_size], [LANGUAGE], [date_format], [date_first], [QUOTED_IDENTIFIER], [ARITHABORT], [ANSI_NULL_DFLT_ON], [ANSI_DEFAULTS], [ANSI_WARNINGS], [ANSI_PADDING], [ANSI_NULLS], [CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL], [transaction_isolation_level], [LOCK_TIMEOUT], [DEADLOCK_PRIORITY], [row_count], [prev_error], [nest_level], [granted_query_memory], [executing_managed_code], [group_id], [query_hash], [query_plan_hash] FROM sys.dm_exec_requests (NOLOCK)

    WHERE session_id = @@SPID

  • If you want to find out the actual statement executed at the start of the sql call stack than you can get it (up to 4000 characters) by calling DBCC INPUTBUFFER. The dmvs to get the same data does not return the start of the call stack.

    DECLARE @SQL NVARCHAR(4000)

    DECLARE @IBuf TABLE (EventType nvarchar(30) NULL, Parameters INT NULL, EventInfo nvarchar(4000) NULL)

    INSERT @IBuf

    EXEC('DBCC INPUTBUFFER(@@spid) WITH NO_INFOMSGS')

    SELECT @SQL = EventInfo FROM @IBuf

    SELECT @SQL

  • Great Article,

    I will make some changes in table, and post here later.

    TY for share. 😛

  • Thanks for another good script.

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