Re: Security Issue

From: Kimberly L. Tripp (Kimberly@nospam.sqlskills.com)
Date: 10/18/02 

From: "Kimberly L. Tripp" <Kimberly@nospam.sqlskills.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 00:02:56 -0700

First, the only type of activity that you can monitor AFTER the fact is data
modification/object creation, etc. activity. Query activity is NOT logged in
the transaction log.

However, having said that - you can only get information from the
transaction log with 3rd party tools like Lumigent's Log Explorer
(www.lumigent.com)

BUT - I'm not sure of the versions they support prior to SQL Server 2000...
I think you're only options for 6.5 for after the fact would be 3rd party
tools. See if Lumigent has a version for 6.5 - not sure???

IF you truly want to log and monitor activity then you need to think a bit
about it and then setup a "trace" with SQL Trace (that was in 6.5) or
Profiler for 7.0+. I don't remember much about this in 6.5. Check out the
BOL for more info...

For more informaiton on Profiler check out the following webcast
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q325263 and the BOL.

hth,
kt

Kimberly L. Tripp
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"Emad Elmagrisy" <emad.elmagrisy@au.towerlimited.com> wrote in message
news:4b4c01c2757b$281c3680$37ef2ecf@TKMSFTNGXA13...
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to find out who logged to a particular
> database in the SQL Server 6.5 and view activities done
> on that particular database.
>
> Thanks
>
> Emad

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