audit

Advice on Change Tracking in Sql Server 2008

My client is looking for a way to do a full audit trails (full view of historical data on all tables) on the application. Other than using the old fashioned way of having table copies or storing field name, field value, modified by, modified on etc, I was looking at using Sql Server 2008 change tracking. Found a How-To article on msdn ...

Stopping fraud by looking for patterns in data .

What applications are recommended for SQL Server auditing and, more specifically, fraud investigations? I need a tool that allows an end user to correlate data values to find fraud patterns. This tool must allow tuning as needed to reduce false positives. It's also important that it be fairly intuitive. Ideally, once in place it wo...

Difference in Auditing and Logging?

I have been coming across these two words more often but i didn't see much difference in these? I mean want to know are they used interchangeably or there are some differences in those two? Thanks. ...

What messaging technologies in windows-ce for guaranteed msg delivery?

We are building a windows-ce (6.0R3) based device that requires guaranteed and audit-ready message delivery (including store & forward) up to and down from the cloud. I have been looking for choices beyond: MSMQ a proprietary solution (what our prototype device is using) AMQP (I have not found any RabbitMQ clients for CE, by example) ...

How to keep historic details of modification in a database (Audit trail)?

I'm a J2EE developer & we are using hibernate mapping with a PostgreSQL database. We have to keep track of any changes occurs in the database, in others words all previous & current values of any field should be saved. Each field can be any type (bytea, int, char...) With a simple table it is easy but we a graph of objects things are m...

Java Audit table logging, MySQL equivalent of CONTEXT_INFO.

Hi, I am looking for the MySQL equivalent of CONTEXT_INFO that is present in SQL Server. Or any other session variable like thing using which I can pass the username to the trigger. I am currently working on logging table data for audit. I need to pass the username of the logged in user to the delete trigger. Any ideas? We are deletin...

Export TFS 2008 (Team Foundation Server) Groups and Permissions

Is there a way to export all of TFS 2008 Groups and Permissions for an Audit? ...

Implementing auditing using Autofac if it support method interception?

I'm planning to use Autofac IoC for my project where I must implement auditing (Who, What is doing in application). I was already read a lot of articles on this subject (auditing). My intention was to use method interception to implement this functionality. I know that Unity support this, but I was wondering if I can use Autofac for thi...

capturing user IP address information for audit

We have a requirement to log IP address information of all users who use a certain web application based on JEE 5. What would be an appropriate sql data type for storing IPv4 or IPv6 addressses in the following supported databases (h2, mysql, oracle). There is also a need to filter activity from certain IP addresses. Should I just treat ...

Help Auditing in Oracle

Hello everybody I need some help in auditing in Oracle. We have a database with many tables and we want to be able to audit every change made to any table in any field. So the things we want to have in this audit are: user who modified time of change occurred old value and new value so we started creating the trigger which ...

Compare values for audit trail

I'm attempting to develop an audit trail/tracking solution for an existing database written in PLSQL/PHP - however I'm still unsure as of yet on an easy (to implement and maintain) solution for tracking changes to fields/values. For instance, the project tracking portion of the DB APP tracks over 200 fields and ideally I'd like a nice wa...

Name that blog entry - Modelling changes over time with two db columns only.

I vaguely remember reading a blog entry (written by a well-known blogger I think) about how to model price changes over time, and that you could model most changes by saving two dates only (two columns in a db). The blog talked about prices on a website changing over time and how you could figure out the right price to charge knowing onl...

Add objects to association in OnPreInsert, OnPreUpdate

Hi, I have an event listener (for Audit Logs) which needs to append audit log entries to the association of the object: public Company : IAuditable { // Other stuff removed for bravety IAuditLog IAuditable.CreateEntry() { var entry = new CompanyAudit(); this.auditLogs.Add(entry); return entry; } ...

Triggers in NHibernate

Hi everybody, I'd like to know if is there something like a Trigger (of databases) in NHibernate that I can use per entity ? I'd like to make a history of each record, and with triggers I can compare the old value and new value of each property and generate a register of history. I've heard about Audit in NHibernate, but it's for al...

Managing trace files on Sql Server 2005

I need to manage the trace files for a database on Sql Server 2005 Express Edition. The C2 audit logging is turned on for the database, and the files that it's creating are eating up a lot of space. Can this be done from within Sql Server, or do I need to write a service to monitor these files and take the appropriate actions? I found...

Help in setting the setClientInfo with JPA

i am trying to set to jpa the new JDBC method which allows the application to be identified with a name it is the setClientInfo() and i could do it using pure JDBC using the lines Properties jdbcProperties = new Properties(); jdbcProperties.put("user", "system"); jdbcProperties.put("password", "sw01"); jdbcProperties.put("v$session.prog...

SQL Server - What's in that log backup?

So I noticed that one of my log backups is about 1000x larger than normal. I'd like to see what is in there. Is there something I can use to read it? Thanks! ...

Is there an API to remotely read a Windows machine's audit configuration?

I need to know, for each subcategory, whether it'll be audited on success, on failure, both, or none. Below is an example of the information I need to collect. Can I get this through WMI? Or if not, by other means, assuming I have proper (admin) credentials to the target machine? Again, to clarify, it's not the event log I need to read...

JPA EclipseLink Auditing for Oracle issue with SessionCustomizer...

I was trying to use the SessionCustomizer for auditing with v$session.program for oracle and it works with JDBC but i need it working with JPA, so i read a bit more the documentation for SESSION_CUSTOMIZER in this site: http://wiki.eclipse.org/Using_EclipseLink_JPA_Extensions_(ELUG)#EclipseLink_JPA_Persistence_Unit_Properties_for_Customi...

Auditing for Oracle with EclipseLink JPA

I am using EclipseLink and i have to audit in oracle so I can audit using pure JDBC with the V$session and i can audit the application name in oracle in this way but here in EclipseLink JPA I cannot set the application name to be audited, the way in which I have been trying is by setting dynamically the session param I want using the Ses...