Название: Practical Database Auditing for Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL: Troubleshooting, Regulatory Compliance, and Governance
Автор: Josephine Bush
Издательство: Apress
Год: 2022
Страниц: 307
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 39.4 MB

Track changes and key events in your SQL Server databases in support of application troubleshooting, regulatory compliance, and governance. This book shows you how to use key features in SQL Server such as SQL Server Audit and Extended Events to track schema changes, permission changes, and changes to your data. You’ll even learn how to track queries run against specific tables in a database. Not all changes and events can be captured and tracked using SQL Server Audit and Extended Events, and this book goes beyond those features to also show you what can be captured using Common Criteria compliance, Change Data Capture, or querying the SQL Server log. You will learn how to audit just what you need to audit, and how to audit pretty much anything that happens on a SQL Server instance. This book will also help you set up cloud auditing with an emphasis on Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance.

You don’t need expensive third-party auditing tools to make auditing work for you, and to demonstrate and provide value back to your business. This book will help you set up an auditing solution that works for you and your needs. It shows you how to collect the audit data that you need, how to centralize that data for easy reporting, and even how to generate audit reports using built-in SQL Server functionality for use by your own team, by developers, and by your organization’s auditors.

What You Will Learn
Understand why auditing is important for troubleshooting, compliance, and governance
Track changes and key events using SQL Server Audit and Extended Events
Track SQL Server configuration changes for governance and troubleshooting
Utilize Change Data Capture to track data changes in SQL Server tables
Centralize auditing data from all your databases for easy querying and reporting
Configure auditing on Azure SQL and Azure SQL Managed Instance, and on other popular cloud platforms

Who This Book Is For
Database administrators who need to know what’s changing on their database servers, and who are making those changes; database-savvy DevOps engineers and developers who are charged with troubleshooting processes and applications; developers and administrators who are responsible for generating reports in support of regulatory compliance reporting and auditing