SQL Server Audit Components An audit is the combination of several elements into a single package for a specific group of server actions or database actions. The components of [!INCLUDE ssNoVersion] ...

A server policy applies to all existing and newly created databases on the server. If server blob auditing is enabled, it always applies to the database. The database will be audited, regardless of ...

Creating an Audit object First create an audit object. This essentially defines a destination to which SQL Server will record information about interesting events that occur. An Audit object can ...

Still, SQL Server 2000 does conform with the C2-level auditing required by certain government users. Let’s take a quick look at the evolution of SQL Server auditing, then dive into its capabilities.

New, compliance-specific reports make database admins audit ready; safeguards sensitive data by tracking audit events in the SQL Server instance. Visit ManageEngine at PASS Summit 2014 in booth K4.

SQL Server 2008 has some great new features. One of them is the new auditing capability. Now we can audit at the server, database and table level according to specifications provided by the DBA.

Matt Usher, senior program manager, Microsoft SQL Engineering, announced in a blog post that the database auditing feature on Azure SQL Database has been enabled for customers to use. “Using a ...