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

ApexSQL Audit 2015 R3 – Product update alert

ApexSQL Audit 2015 R3 has been released

Type: Medium feature, medium 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.

August 20, 2015

Bravo team update: ApexSQL Audit, ApexSQL Trigger and ApexSQL Doc

What have you been working on?

We have been working on ApexSQL Trigger 2015 version – a tool that seamlessly integrates trigger based audit trails and reporting into your client applications. We are introducing a new feature – possibility to audit DDL changes. Users will be able to track DDL changes on audited database, collect data and generate reports in the similar manner they are currently tracking DML changes.

August 6, 2015

Barton team update: ApexSQL Audit – Update 3

What have you been working on?

We have been working on integrating trigger based before/after reporting. By using integration with ApexSQL Trigger 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.

July 13, 2015

ApexSQL Audit 2015 R2 – Product update alert

ApexSQL Audit 2015 R2 has been released

Type: 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.

May 20, 2015

Barton team update: ApexSQL Audit – Update 2

Barton team is solely responsible for ApexSQL Audit and we are committed to ensuring that it is the best auditing tool for SQL Server available

Here is what we have been working on

May 11, 2015

ApexSQL Audit 2015 – Product update alert

ApexSQL Audit 2015 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 6, 2015

Video – ApexSQL DBA Bundle

This video provides you with a quick overview of ApexSQL tools for DBA’s and their features.

Learn how ApexSQL DBA tools can help with SQL Server database performance, SQL Server data recovery, backup management, SQL database compliance, capturing who saw what in SQL Server, and more.

February 25, 2015

Barton team update: ApexSQL Audit – Update 1

What have you been working on?

  • We’ve been working on ApexSQL Audit 2015 R1 release. We’ve been addressing some performance, stability, and usability issues reported by our users, while also fixing issues noticed during testing.
February 13, 2015

ApexSQL Audit Quick FAQs

What is the performance impact of ApexSQL Audit?

In general, performance impact of ApexSQL Audit shouldn’t be significant in most production environments. It cases when heavy traffic servers are being audited for significant amount of different events, there can be significant performance impact when central instance of ApexSQL Audit is installed on a production server – the higher server activity, the larger impact. Installation of ApexSQL on a dedicated server/Virtual machine provides the full performance without any significant impact on the production database server. ApexSQL Audit process all the data processed by SQL Server itself plus the trace technology and additional internal data and communication impact. We can provide guidance on this as needed.

February 2, 2015