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The Viewpoint database level trigger does not record all events resulting in incomplete audit trail and inability to determine how data got mangled

two reasons related to the vtDDLAudit database level trigger:

1) We are not capturing duplicate events due to the WHERE clause so if someone has ever disabled a table level trigger in the past then subsequent events will not be recorded

2) We are not capturing ANY trigger disable/enables if someone calls "disable trigger" or "enable trigger" from SSMS


  • Andrew Karr
  • Aug 16 2017
  • In Review
Company EMCOR
Job Title / Role IT Mgr
I need it... Yesterday...Come on already
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  • Nathan Sutherland commented
    April 17, 2019 22:20

    Count my vote as well! https://www.sqlshack.com/various-techniques-to-audit-sql-server-databases/ lists the various strategies that can be used. If everyone were to upgrade to 2016+, I think CDC might be a good fit? https://www.sqlshack.com/change-data-capture-for-auditing-sql-server/

  • Paula Bortolussi commented
    August 22, 2017 20:41

    I agree that the entire audit should be reviewed. We had to use the audit recently to restore records that were modified since the last backup and it was painful because of how much isn't captured (and we have full auditing turned on).

  • Guest commented
    August 17, 2017 16:41

    I think it would be helpful if the entire auditing process would be re-visited in the system.   An audit, fif you want to really provide one, should be able to identify who change what and when it happened.  The current VP database auditing falls way short of that mark.

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