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Kiani
Starting Member

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Posted - 2008-01-09 : 00:17:07
Hello,
I want to create a trigger on some system tables such as sysdepends that when any changes on relations happend then a record include username,machine name,Appname and so on be inserted to a user table, because I want to manage my databases for changing the relations,indexes and so on by some persons or applications that I do'nt know who is changing them.
Can anyone answer me?
Thanks

mcrowley
Aged Yak Warrior

771 Posts

Posted - 2008-01-09 : 10:41:05
It is generally a bad idea to modify system tables, as it could invalidate any support you would get from Microsoft. In fact, I am not sure the system even allows you to add triggers to the system tables.

best bet is to restrict permissions on the production databases, so the users can modify data and such, but have no rights to run DDL scripts. This will take some political wrangling, but can be done. If there are third party applications that need DBO access to do some "black magic" in the database, keep their logins separated from everyone else.
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jezemine
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

2886 Posts

Posted - 2008-01-09 : 12:10:07
or, upgrade to 2005 and write a DDL trigger.


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rmiao
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

7266 Posts

Posted - 2008-01-09 : 23:34:53
You can't create trigger on system tables.
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russell
Pyro-ma-ni-yak

5072 Posts

Posted - 2008-01-10 : 00:30:06
May want to have a look at Lumigent AuditDB (a tool rmiao pointed me to a few yrs ago) :)

or ApexSQL, but I'll say Lumigent is far better.
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