Need to Monitor the use of account to login to SQL Management Studio

  • Hello,

    I have this one account xxxxxx used in applications to access the sql production data, this account information is known to the developers, I notice couple of developers use that account to login to SQL Management Studio to connect to Production Servers to run the queries and other heavy tasks which they are not suppose to,

    Is there any way I can monitor that,

    Help is highly appreciated,

    Dev

  • Run the profiler probably from the remote machine, Filter by the User account and check the application name and host name.

    Check if the host name is not equal to the application server, then you got the culprit.

    Thank You,

    Best Regards,

    SQLBuddy

  • Try running a Server Side trace with all the filters mentioned above. Running a profiler trace on a production instance might have negative impacts. An example here

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  • Login trigger? If you want to monitor their logins not what they do afterwards. You can also prevent those logins with an appropriate login trigger.

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