You could also look at setting up a SQL Server Audit (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/security/auditing/sql-server-audit-database-engine?view=sql-server-2017) and monitor the DATABASE_PRINCIPAL_CHANGE_GROUP and SERVER_PRINCIPAL_CHANGE_GROUP objects.

I was planning on putting SQL with the main OS and not a VM. Only the IIS would be the VM.

This is a new website and if does wellI...

I think I'd suggest instead, IF the OS licensing allows it, would be to load Server 2016 on the physical with the Hyper-V role, then stand up two VMs running...

Ok, I’m officially envious.

how well thongs must be organised at your place, if this kind of events come as a surprise for you?

i can hardly remember when things went...

Well, this is going to be fun.  Have a project that's been moving kind of slow because of the various and sundry things going on at work.  Audits, our team...

Correct

Ouch.  Don't use SE (not even signed up,) but that sounds like a bad show all around from reading the postings about it...

Even worse with these new keyless things. You can't stash a spare on the car or your car would be in permanent unsafe mode. I know that most vehicles...

Debbie just bought a new car with laser/radar collision avoidance... I hope she does NOT learn to rely on it as so many have done because the sensors (especially...

Grant, at this point, I'm thinking about separating my mailbox key from the rest of my keys, and attaching the thing to a hunk of 2x4 so it can't drop...

I was a good boy when I was a teenager and never would've done...

Yeah, couple hours ago a guy from the water dept called to check which of the two mailbox clusters it was, because there's two on the same street, both with...

I'd try checking in the following location:

Control Panel -> Programs -> Programs and Features -> Installed Updates, then key in the search box the KB you're looking for (as KB########,...

Ever have a day go from "seems to be going good" to "seems to be getting better" to "um, I think I screwed up bad" to "kicking the side of...

Heh, yeah, it's frustrating.  The website for reservations never threw an error, it just kept throwing "event not found" and when it finally did find the event, it...