Category Archives: Auditing
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Creating a Database Audit Specification can create new users & schemas in the background
2June 28, 2022 by Kenneth Fisher
I love database audits. They are simple, easy to use, effective, not overly resource intensive, and can be turned on …
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An auditing mind set
2May 31, 2022 by Kenneth Fisher
I little while back I presented at Pass Data Community Summit. Specifically the presentation was Auditing your data and data …
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Quiz & answers for my “Auditing your data and data access” session.
1November 16, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
I was honored to speak at Pass Summit last week (Thanks again Redgate), and if you’ve ever been to one …
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Audit Columns
3September 28, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
One of the easiest ways to collect information about table activity is to add a series of audit columns to …
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Auditing with “C2 Auditing” and “Common Criteria Compliance”
Leave a commentSeptember 7, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
I’m going to be fairly high level on these because to be honest, if you are going to use them …
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A new presentation on Auditing your databases
Leave a commentAugust 19, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
I’m giving a presentation at the PASS Data Community Summit 2021 being put on by Redgate! It’s going to be …
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DDL Trigger to log database level security commands.
4June 24, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
In my last post I talked about reasons why your permissions might go missing. One of the reasons, and in …
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SQL Homework – June 2021 – SQL Audits
Leave a commentJune 1, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
Last month I had you work on Extended Events, so hopefully now you are a bit more comfortable with them. …
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Help it takes forever to open the SQL Server Log!
Leave a commentJanuary 24, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
Just to be very clear, I’m talking about the SQL Server Log, not database logs. Sometimes this is called the …
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Default Instance Reports – Configuration Changes History
Leave a commentJuly 17, 2017 by Kenneth Fisher
Hey, who changed the max memory setting for the xyz instance? The good news is that this information is captured …
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