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Audit full text activity

I need to find when and which user created full text catalog, and who added/modified/deleted the columns (that were full text indexed) in that full text catalog.
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Auditing specific database events in SQL Server

For auditing purposes, we have a requirement in which we have to enable Auditing for theses events: DBA Logins Changes made by DBAs LIKE INSERT, DELETE, UPDATE, ALTER (etc.) Changes made by our ...
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how can Audit All Login To SQL Server BY ODBC Connection

I MAke Report By Access Form On SQL database I make ODBC Connection For login To Update the data From Database Now I want Audit All logins To know who make Update today Or who make Update Now ? ...
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How database administrators can see my requests to MSSQL server?

I'm a MS SQL 2008 user. I have access to some tabes. I need to request few colums from table as I usually do. But I need to do it onse (for example) in 5 seconds and system administrators shouldn't ...
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Track grant permission on tables

I'd like to see if there are any changes on the permissions granted for a specific table. For example, I don't want to have the login 'John' have the SELECT permission on the table Invoices. If ...
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How to find DELETE and UPDATE statements that have been executed on a database?

I am trying to find out what delete and update statements have been executed on a certain database in a certain period of time. I came across this following query, but it generates an error message: ...
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SQL Server 2005 not collecting logins in the log file

I am currently running SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition on a Windows 2003 server machine. I have gone to the properties of the server and confirmed that the Login Auditing is set to both failed and ...
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Who changed the size of the transaction log?

Can I know, who and when changed size of database transation log?
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Audit 'sa' login in SQL Server 2005

I have a requirement where I need to audit (and potentially be notified) whenever the 'sa' user account logs into an SQL Server 2005 instance. Additionally, there is a preference that the database ...
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Tracking object use using SQL Auditing

I am looking for a solution to track object usage in my database. Objects such as tables, stored procedures, and functions. I discovered SQL Auditing and was under the impression that it's exactly ...
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How does the QUEUE_DELAY option for Server Audits work

I am working through how SQL Server Audits work and would like some clarity on how the QUEUE_DELAY options works. BOL defines the options as: Determines the time, in milliseconds, that can ...
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Reconciling dm_os_windows_info windows_sku values, gathering same info from pre SQL Server 2008 R2 instances

I'm developing an inventory system for RDBMS deployments. I'm starting with SQL Server, and later will be pulling in info for Oracle & other RDBMS deployments. When you query [dm_os_windows_info] ...
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Disabling Indexes and Auditing for large data import

Hopefully the title describes this sufficiently, but I have a process that runs and performs thousands of individual inserts and updates (nothing I can do to change that). My questions are: 1. Is it ...
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Data Change Audit Plan

My company is changing from a distributed Access Database model to using a centralized SQL Database. The datatables were designed such that all of the tables have a modified date. In discussion it ...
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Do I trace an Active Directory group based database login the same way as an AD user based login on SQL Server?

We are currently undergoing an PwC audit on our database logins. Some of our user accounts have sysadmin privs, which of course is a major security breach. I have successfully done traces on ...
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Create an Audit trail on SQL Server 2008 to trace all privilege users

I need to create a trace of all the commands issued by members of SysAdmin or SecurityAdmin server Roles. I figured, I could use Profiler to do that but it will not comprise all the added members. I ...
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How to find out who deleted some data SQL Server

My boss had a query from a customer yesterday asking how they could find out who deleted some data in their SQL Server database (it is the express edition if that matters). I thought this could be ...
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What would I need to do to make sure my DB policies have to pass a security audit?

I have an audit coming up, and I was wondering what physical, electronic, and logical access controls an auditor would look for when auditing a database for an ERP system. I'm really new to this ...