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What is audit table in database?
Audit tables are used by native or 3rd party auditing tools that capture data changes that have occurred on a database, usually including the information on who made the change, which objects were affected by it, when it was made as well as the information on the SQL login, application and host used to make the change.
What is the use of audit table?
The audit tables track changes and deletions made to your data at the database level. When enabled, updates and deletions to every type of record are tracked by the database and stored separately for faster querying and reporting.
How do you create an audit table?
- Start ApexSQL Trigger.
- Connect to the database to audit.
- In the main grid, select the table(s) to audit.
- In the Columns pane, select the column(s) to audit.
- Check the transactions to audit – including Insert, Update and/or Delete.
- Repeat the steps 3 to 5 for all tables you want to audit.
- In the menu, click Create triggers.
What is a database audit specification?
Database Audit Specification. A Database Audit Specification defines which Audit Action Groups will be audited for the specific database in which the specification is created.
What is an audit database?
The database audit specification collects database-level audit actions raised by the Extended Events feature. You can add either audit action groups or audit events to a database audit specification. Audit events are the atomic actions that can be audited by the SQL Server engine.
What is audit trigger in SQL Server?
ApexSQL Trigger is a SQL Server auditing tool which captures data and schema changes that have occurred on a database including the information on who made the change, which objects were affected, when it was made, as well as the information on the SQL login, application and host used to make the change.