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How do I audit what has been updated in a SQL Server? The transaction log that SQL Server writes is not really useful for this purpose (see logview.txt in the faq for more information). There are really two options :- SQL Trace/Profiler. SQL Server has built-in tracing facilities that can be used for an audit trail if required. You can set-up a trace to run automatically and to write output to a SQL table and/or flat file. Triggers. With this option you write insert/update/delete triggers on every table to audit all access you want. (There is no such thing as a read trigger). If the effort of writing 100's of triggers isn't appealing then you can get a 3rd party product that automates this for you - www.redmatrix.com

Michael R. Hotek

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