SQL Server Audit

Technical Article

Generic trigger for maintaining the Audit Log

  • Script

This trigger will work even if you don't have the primary key on any table. Mechanism to configure the primary key in config table has been provided. This can be very helpful to solve the system audit requirements without much efforts.

Disclaimer : Audit Log trigger has performance overhead. It’s meant for table which is not frequently updated, deleted or inserted. Please take precaution when creating the trigger on the table having too many columns.

2.33 (3)

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2019-10-15 (first published: )

3,016 reads

Blogs

Marketing Analyst: The Data-Driven Superhero Your Company Needs

By

Want to blend your love of marketing with the power of data? Becoming a...

Can You See Table Valued Parameters in Extended Events?

By

I live for questions and this was an interesting one. Can you see Table...

Can an AI Help Me Find a Job?

By

I’m not looking for a job, but I ran across an article about using...

Read the latest Blogs

Forums

Dynamic T-SQL Script Parameterization Using Python

By omu

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Dynamic T-SQL Script Parameterization Using...

Pitfalls to avoid while feeding events into CrowdStrike

By Pablo Echeverria

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Pitfalls to avoid while feeding...

Column Adds and Drops

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Column Adds and Drops

Visit the forum

Question of the Day

Column Adds and Drops

I run this batch on SQL Server 2022. What happens?

ALTER TABLE dbo.Accounts
 ADD AccountAccessType INT
GO
ALTER TABLE dbo.Accounts
 DROP AccountAccessType
GO

See possible answers