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AutoAudit script Paul Nielsen, John Sigouin www.sqlserverbible.com
Version 3.30 is available in the downloads tab.
AutoAudit is a SQL Server (2005, 2008, 2012) Code-Gen utility that creates Audit Trail Triggers with:
- Insert - event logged to Audit table
- Update - old and new values logged to Audit table
- Delete - logs all final values to the Audit table
- CreatedDate, CreatedBy, ModifiedDate, ModifiedBy, and RowVersion (incrementing INT) columns optionally added to table
- View to reconstruct deleted rows
- UDF and view to reconstruct Row History
- UDF to recover the data from a table at any point in time - NEW FOR 3.30
- Schema Audit Trigger to track schema changes
- Re-code-gens triggers when Alter Table changes the table
Version 3.30 major changes:
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Added the _TableRecovery UDF that returns the data from a table as it existed at a specified point in time
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Added User-configurable prefixes and suffixes for AutoAudit views and UDF's
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Added a parameter to configure the date style to either 113 or 121 in AutoAudit tables
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Added QUOTENAME delimiters around TableName entry in AuditHeader table
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Added LoginName to the SchemaAudit table
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Changed the default behaviour of the pAutoAuditDropAll stored procedure to 0 (don't drop) instead of 1 and added a safeguard confirmation parameter.
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Added the Comment column to the AuditAllExclusions table
Version 3.20h major changes:
- Added an option for pAutoAuditAll to exclude all tables from specified schemas
Version 3.20e major changes:
- Handle primary keys with up to 5 columns
- implemented Quotename and all over to handle any table and column name
- Save changes for a subset of the columns in a table
- Schema support so that the Audit tables and objects can be created in any schema (not just dbo)
- Added a _RowHistory view for each audited table
- Implemented Quotename() all over to ensure AutoAudit works with any table and column name
- Adjusted AutoAudit to make it work with case-sensitive database collation
- Added the option for users to rename the Created, CreatedBy, Modified, ModifiedBy, RowVersion columns
- Added audit data archiving feature
There is close to 80 changes between version 2.00h and 3.30. Please refer to the Documention TAB and setup script file for all the details. I also added information in the guide section to explain the new features in more details.
Version 2 adds:
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Optional logging of submitted SQL Batch
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Optional Insert logging (none, event, all values)
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Optional strict or loose user context logging
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Optional base table DDL columns (Created, CreatedBy, Modified, ModifiedBy, and RowVersion)