Auditing

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Designing Tables for Audit Data in SQL Server

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My company is just starting to look at adding functionality to retain historical data for key tables and columns for auditing purposes in many of our SQL Server databases. I have seen some of your recent tips related to triggers (Forcing Trigger Firing Order in SQL Server and Trigger Alternatives in SQL Server - OUTPUT Clause). Based on using triggers or a similar technology, what is the best way to store the historical data?

2008-04-15

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Monitoring and Recording DDL changes on SQL 2005 (NARC)

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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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