ApexSQL Audit 2017 – Product update alert

ApexSQL Audit 2017 has been released

About ApexSQL Audit: ApexSQL Audit is a SQL Server auditing tool with a wide range of features for auditing access, changes, and security on SQL Server instances, databases, and objects. It audits queries, DDL and DML operations, security events (authentication changes, permissions changes, and attempted logins), events on stored procedures and functions. ApexSQL Audit saves captured information in a centralized auditing repository and provides comprehensive reports.

April 20, 2017

ApexSQL Audit 2017 – Screen shot tour

There are 2 main menu tabs in ApexSQL Audit.

Home tab contains various ApexSQL Audit features separated into several organizational groups: Auditing, Reporting, Alerting and Central repository, which include majority of ApexSQL Audit features:

April 11, 2017

ApexSQL Audit vs. SQL Server Change Data Capture (CDC)

Auditing of SQL Server changes on both server and database levels is not only recommended but also an obligatory task in many companies. In addition to many existing compliance standards which ensure the transparency of data and changes on the information for many different spheres, most companies also impose internal auditing specifications to track changes on the SQL Server databases to ensure that changes on important database tables are fully transparent for the purposes of general auditing, troubleshooting, investigation, disaster recovery etc.

December 1, 2016

ApexSQL DBA tools vs. alternatives comparison

This blog post represents an index of pages and articles comparing ApexSQL tools for SQL Server DBAs, their features, usability, performance, etc. with related tools developed by other vendors and in general.

Comparison matrices by product

Advantages vs. competition

General advantages by product

Specific feature advantages

 

June 16, 2016

ApexSQL Audit 2016 R3 – Product update alert

ApexSQL Audit 2016 R3 has been released

Type: Minor fix release

About ApexSQL Audit: ApexSQL Audit is a SQL Server auditing tool with a wide range of features for auditing access, changes, and security on SQL Server instances, databases, and objects. It audits queries, DDL and DML operations, security events (authentication changes, permissions changes, and attempted logins), events on stored procedures and functions. ApexSQL Audit saves captured information in a centralized auditing repository and provides comprehensive reports.

June 13, 2016

ApexSQL Audit 2016 R2 – Product update alert

ApexSQL Audit 2016 R2 has been released

Type: Minor feature, medium fix release

About ApexSQL Audit: ApexSQL Audit is a SQL Server auditing tool with a wide range of features for auditing access, changes, and security on SQL Server instances, databases, and objects. It audits queries, DDL and DML operations, security events (authentication changes, permissions changes, and attempted logins), events on stored procedures and functions. ApexSQL Audit saves captured information in a centralized auditing repository and provides comprehensive reports.

April 8, 2016

ApexSQL Audit 2016 – Product update alert

ApexSQL Audit 2016 has been released

Type: Major feature, major fix 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, DDL and DML operations, security events (authentication changes, permissions changes, and attempted logins), events on stored procedures and functions. ApexSQL Audit saves captured information in a centralized auditing repository and provides comprehensive reports.

March 21, 2016

ApexSQL Audit 2015 R4 – Product update alert

ApexSQL Audit 2015 R4 has been released

Type: Medium feature, minor fix 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, DDL and DML operations, security events (authentication changes, permissions changes, and attempted logins), events on stored procedures and functions. ApexSQL Audit saves captured information in a centralized auditing repository and provides comprehensive reports.

November 9, 2015

Barton team update: ApexSQL Audit – Update 4

What have you been working on?

We have been working on integrating trigger based before/after reporting

By implementing integration with ApexSQL Trigger, in the latest release of ApexSQL Audit, we managed to very quickly provide an option so very often requested by our users, to monitor before and after values of DML statement executions.

August 20, 2015