SQL Server 2008 Auditing Functionality
SQL Server 2008 in-built Auditing Functionality has a lot of advantages over traditional way of auditing:
1. SQL Server 2008 Auditing is Easy to Setup and Administer.
2. SQL Server 2008 Auditing can be enable at the Instance and Database Levels.
3. SQL Server 2008 Auditing includes many predefined activities that you can audit, including DML and DDL activity.
4. SQL Server 2008 Auditing is very lightweight compared to older ways of capturing this information which used Traces. It internally uses Extended Events engine to capture audit data. This results in fast performance plus minimum overhead compared to using SQL Trace to capture activity.
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