HOW TO TRACK OR REGISTER INSERT, DELETE, UPDATE

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HOW TO TRACK OR REGISTER INSERT, DELETE, UPDATE

LMtz

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March 20, 2007 at 6:24 pm

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I HAVE A SECURITY REQUIREMENT, A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO SOME RECORDS WERE DELETED AND OTHERS INSERTED IN A PRODUCTION DATABASE, WE COULDN'T PROBE WHO DID IT.
NOW WE NEED TO IMPLEMENT SOME ACTIONS TO TRACK EVERY SINGLE INSERT, DELETE OR UPDATE ON THE DATABASE AND RECORD IT IN ANY DEVICE OR SOMETHING.
WE DON'T KNOW IF EXIST SOFTWARE TO MAKE IT POSSIBLE OR MAYBE RUNA A TRACE THAT RECORD ALL MOVEMENTS ON DATABASE INTO A TABLE, OTHER IDEA IS TO CREATE TRIGGERS ON EVERY TABLE BUT WE THINK THAT EXISTS A BETTER WAY.
WE NEED SOME ADVICES TO IMPLEMENT THIS REQUEIREMENT.

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004638 More actions · Answer 1

You'll need to do a fair bit more reasearch, but this snippet from Books OnLine (found under "auditing", imagine that?) should help you get started...

C2 Auditing

C2 auditing is necessary if you are running a C2 certified system. A C2 certified system meets a government standard that defines the security level. To have a C2 certified Microsoft® SQL Server™, you must configure SQL Server in the evaluated C2 configuration. For more information about C2 certification, see the C2 Administrator's and User's Security Guide.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Happy Moose Newbie Points: 6 More actions · Answer 2

Triggers would be the best functionlity you can use. It capture details about all records that are inserted, updated or deleted.

BOL has a really good section on triggers

Kindest Regards,

Happy Moose
vitaldata.com.au

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004638 More actions · Answer 3

Yep, I agree... triggers will normally do the trick. My only concern with triggers would be that folks with DBO, SA, DDL Admin, and (I think) Bulk Insert Admin privs can easily and temporarily disable triggers. If this is malicious in nature, you would need something a bit more tamper proof.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 738642 More actions · Answer 4

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/sjones/auditingyoursqlserverpart1.asp

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004638 More actions · Answer 5

LMtz,

Any of this helping of do you need another "track"?

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)