ApexSQL Audit 2013 has been released
Type: Initial release
About ApexSQL Audit: ApexSQL Audit is a SQL Server auditing tool with a wide range of possibilities for auditing access, changes, and security on SQL Server instances, databases, and objects. It audits queries, execute and security (authentication changes, permissions changes, attempted logins) operations on tables, stored procedures, functions and views, saves captured information in a centralized auditing repository, and provides comprehensive reports
For more information, visit the ApexSQL Audit product page
About this release:
- Supports Microsoft SQL Server 2005, 2008, 2008R2, and 2012 auditing
- Audits multiple SQL Server instances and databases
- Audits DDL, DML, queries, execute operations, errors, warnings and security operations
- Provides fine-tuning of the auditing configuration
- Provides a centralized auditing repository for all audited SQL Server instances
- Includes a tampering-evident algorithm for data integrity
- Includes 35 built-in reports for complete audit trail, authentication changes, permission changes, etc.
- Includes the Custom reports option with a visual filtering system
- Includes several export file formats for exporting generated reports, such as .doc and .pdf
- Newly detected databases are excluded from auditing by default
- The SQL Server hosting ApexSQL Audit central instance can be included/excluded from auditing during installation
- Ability to archive the Central repository database
- Activation is required after the 14-day evaluation period
- Automatic updates are fixed and enabled
- Can be upgraded from previous versions
ApexSQL Audit 2013 is fully functional. The only restriction is the 14-day evaluation period – please refer to the How-to: licensing and activation of ApexSQL Audit knowledgebase article, which describes everything you need to know about licensing and activation
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Release notes
September 13, 2013
