alert question

  • Would it be possible to create an agent alert that will notify me whenever a new object has been created?

    We have an environment that is a bit unfortunate. I'm in the process of securing our servers but it will take some time and until then nearly everyone has sa password. Mysteriously, new items appear all the time even though it is against our policy.

  • No way I know of to set an alert on this.

    What I've done is store the object list in a table and then run a job to compare current objects to this list every day (or twice a day) and email me differences.

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/sjones/20010423065956_1.asp

  • With SQL 2005 you can easily implement a DDL-Trigger in the database.

    like

    CREATE TRIGGER log_ddl_statements

    ON Database

    FOR ALL_DDL_STATEMENTS

    AS

    "Code for raiserror with log and log into table"

     

     

    AW

    Andreas

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  • I went through this a while back when I found out (for the second or third time) that once anyone in the development group has the sa password for any reason, they all have it.  When I found the most clueless developers had servers registered in Enterprise Manager with the sa login/password (and never used anything else), I told the boss I was going to change it and he backed me up.  There was a bunch of whining, and things broke for a while until they tracked down everywhere they had embedded the sa login, but there was no other way to get them to quit using it.

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