Automatic auditing is a true auditing solution for enterprise customers. STL Trace can be used for satisfying several auditing needs. SQL Server Auditing feature offers a number of advantages that attracts and help DBAs with much more easily achievable goals. These include meeting regulatory compliance requirements. These are :
- Provision for centralized storage of audit logs and integration with system center.
- Better performance that is noticeable.
- Permits free-grained auditing in which an audit can be targeted for some specific actions by a principle against a particular object.
- Allows the objects of audit to be treated as first class database objects, which mean Transact-SQL DDL statements can create these objects.
- The database object is controlled by database engine’s permission model and enforcement control.
- A new level permission is featured in SQL Audit – ALTER ANY SERVER AUDIT- which allows a principle to CREATE, ALTER and DROP an Audit Specification object.
- A database level permission – ALTER ANY DATABASE AUDIT – is introduced to allow a principle to CREATE, ALTER and DROP a Database specification object.
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ReplyDeleteThe SQL Server Audit object collects a single instance of server or database-level actions and groups of actions to monitor. The audit is at the SQL Server instance level. The Database Audit Specification object also belongs to a SQL Server Audit. we can create one database audit specification per SQL Server database per audit. The database audit specification collects database-level audit actions raised by the Extended Events feature. Auditing feature offers a number of advantages that attracts and help DBAs with much more easily achievable goals. Thanks for this information.... Nice Blog!!!
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