Is the SELECT permission checked in an UPDATE statement?
I was at PASS Summit 2011 in Seattle and had a chat with Jack Richins of Microsoft on the SQL Server audit feature after his presentation. A question came up with regards to whether the SELECT...
View ArticlePerformance impact: synchronous audit can trash your database performance
The SQL Server Audit feature introduced in SQL Server2008 is useful in many scenarios. Although it still has much room for improvement , it has made SQL Server auditing easier to manage, and in...
View ArticlePerformance impact: synchronous audit can trash your database performance – II
In my previous post on this subject, I showed the test results from a two-processor machine. Naturally, you may wonder: do we expect to see the same dramatic throughput drop when we enable a...
View ArticlePerformance impact: synchronous audit can trash your database performance – III
This is the third installment of my posts on the performance impact of enabling SQL Server 2008 R2 Audit. My previous two posts ( part I and part II ) show that whether it’s on a two-processor machine...
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