Chapter 28. Practical auditing in SQL Server 2008
Jasper Smith
In SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition, instance- and database-level audit is now built into the Database Engine with its own set of instance- and database-level objects—Server Audit and Server Audit Specification at the instance level, and Database Audit Specification at the database level.
SQL Server 2005 introduced event notifications and data definition language (DDL) triggers as mechanisms for auditing DDL statements, but coverage of events wasn’t complete. There was no support for auditing access to data, and there was no tool support available in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS).
Generating audit event s in SQL 2008 is extremely lightweight compared to previously available ...
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