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 How to find user's activity records

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lw1990
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Posted - 2010-09-16 : 11:30:49

Where can I find the activity of user to the database? Such as when Administrator added a new table, when sa password was changed by somebody?
The SQL Server Logs in Management just shows when backups happened, when a login got error. There is nothing showing the user’s activities. But, it got to be shown somewhere.

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russell
Pyro-ma-ni-yak

5072 Posts

Posted - 2010-09-16 : 12:27:50
some of this can be done with DDL triggers and traces, but to fully audit your database you need to look at 3rd party products like Lumigent AuditDB
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lw1990
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Posted - 2010-09-16 : 15:08:53
Thanks Russell,
Aren't those users activity information saved in system database and we can query them out? Is SQL Server Logs the only place to see the log of the database?
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russell
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Posted - 2010-09-16 : 15:12:01
no they aren't stored anywhere. you can purchase a log reading tool, such as Apex SQL Log to get much of what you're looking for.

again for constant auditing, you'll want an auditing tool though.
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