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SQL Server Audit Trace - things you need to take care!

Published 6 March 8 3:17 AM | SSQA.net

Audit trace is very helpful when you want to monitor a particular processes on your SQL Server, even for the successful logins and recent users activity on the databsaes. But the default trace would have many columns with the information and you need...

Filed under: SOX, sql server, microsoft, solution, dmv, trace, audit, tsql, trace flag, c2

SQL Server and data protection compliance laws, what affects you?

Published 15 February 8 3:59 AM | SSQA.net

Are you aware whether your Enterprise has legal compliance on Sarbanes-Oxley or HIPAA ? First off what you should know about legal compliance is when it comes to the compliance matter on almost every business person's mind, Sarbanes-Oxley, there's...

Filed under: SOX, business continuity, sql server, microsoft, audit, environment, database management, laws, legal, compliance, hippa, data protection

SQL Server 2005 using Cryptography & Encryption what they are for?

Published 13 September 7 7:46 AM | SSQA.net

Since the inception of SQL Server 2005 data encryption and cryptography functionality has elevated to a new level, this wasn't the case until SQL 2000 version. The overall security improvements within SQL 2005 is mainly with 'certficate' authentication...

Filed under: sql server, performance, databases, microsoft, security, audit, encryption, authentication, authorization, cryptography

Audit the activity such as SELECT statements - CDC

Published 30 August 7 6:2 AM | SSQA.net

Can we audit the activity inside the SQL Server 2008 to capture SELECTs activity? For the first time I though CDC will be useful to DBAs in auditing the activity on the database, but its not entirely. It is equivalent to auditing functionalities and in...

Filed under: sql server, microsoft, security, audit, 2008, cdc, monitoring, select