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Can a database be audited without a trigger?
As many of you have experienced, triggers can create issues with maintainability and performance. Therefore, Database Audit Specifications can be used instead of triggers. Similar to the Server Audit Specification, Database Audit Specifications are also disabled by default and explicitly needs to be enabled.
How is SQL Server used for data level audit?
For data level auditing, INSTEAD triggers are used. This has resulted in some performance issues and users and reluctant to use triggers due to these reasons. In SQL Server 2008, tailor-made auditing option was introduced and during the later versions of SQL Server, auditing feature is more improved.
How to create SQL Server trigger based audit trail?
To create a SQL Server database trigger based audit trail with ApexSQL Trigger, follow these steps. 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.
How to audit DDL events in SQL Server?
You want to record changes or events in the database schema. Each DDL trigger implied in the audit should perform as follows: So, one who wants to audit DDL events with this solution must define which information he wants to collect and where he wants to store it.
Do you need to create a database audit specification?
It is important to highlight the fact that, to create a database specified audit, there is no requirement to create a server audit specification. Instead, the audit needs to be created.
What is the equivalent of the audit login event?
Equivalent to the Audit Database Management Event Class. This event is raised when a contained database user logs out of a database Equivalent to the Audit Logout Event Class. This event is raised to report audit messages related to database mirroring transport security. Equivalent to the Audit Database Mirroring Login Event Class.