Reverse Engineering a Server Side Trace

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    Lowell


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  • Excellent topic and excellent article.

    Thanks Lowell. This is very useful stuff to have in the tool-belt.

    Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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  • Great article, this will be very useful.

    I spotted a typo on line 65 of your stored proc:

    from ::fn_trace_geteventinfo(1) AS X

    ...should be:

    from ::fn_trace_geteventinfo(@traceid) AS X

    Cheers

    Chris

  • Thank you for the salute Jason and Thanks for identifying the fix, Chris;

    Something that might escape some folks is did you know that C2 auditing is just another version of a trace?

    a lot of people think it's one of those black box/magical complex things only super dba's know, and it's all requirement for SOX compliance.

    fortunately, a trace is a trace...it's just 1100 lines of events it is going to capture, compared to ~770 for the default trace.

    As an example, here are a couple of traces I ran off of my SLQ2008 server; one is the trace created by C2 Auditing, and the other is one created from the default trace.

    c2_audit_trace_script.txt

    default_trace_script.txt

    I just love looking at the details i guess.

    To do it yourself, it really easy to enable the C2 Auditing to test this: it's in the SSMS, you simply right click on your server, select properties, and there is a check box on the security tab.

    The C2 Audit requires a start and stop of the SQL Server to get it in place, and it becomes traceid 1, with the default trace = traceid 2; I had really grown accustomed to the default trace being traceid = 1, so it was another thing to learn on this one that it could move around.

    here is a link to download the version whitht he correction that Chris identified:

    sp_ScriptAnyTrace.txt

    Lowell


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