James Greaves

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Monitoring and Recording DDL changes on SQL 2005 (NARC)

Auditing activities on your database servers becomes more important all the time. But ensuring that schema changes do not occur without your knowledge may be more important for a stable system. James Greaves brings us a great technique using DDL triggers for doing this.

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2008-02-29

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