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premkuttan

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August 9, 2010 at 6:00 am

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Is there any possibility in identifying by which user and from which system a particular user table in a user database is created? in sys.tables i am able to see creation and modified date but how to identify the IP in which it is created

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Adiga One Orange Chip Points: 27284 More actions · Answer 1

You can get that information by reading the Default Trace. Please refer this.

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John Mitchell-245523 SSC Guru Points: 148809 More actions · Answer 2

Adiga (8/9/2010)
You can get that information by reading the Default Trace. Please refer this.

This method is only useful if the table was created recently enough for the default trace to have been not yet overwritten. If you want a permanent record of who did what and where then one way is to use DDL triggers to log activity such as this to a separate database.

John

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John Mitchell-245523 (8/9/2010)
If you want a permanent record of who did what and where then one way is to use DDL triggers to log activity such as this to a separate database.
John

Do you have a link or code example, John?

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________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

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John Mitchell-245523 SSC Guru Points: 148809 More actions · Answer 4

Jeff

Unfortunately I don't. One of my colleagues has written a sophisticated application for use in house. It collects data from servers about all sorts of stuff - file space, disk space, DDL changes, job failures and so on. It uses DDL triggers, DML triggers and Service Broker. As far as I know, he isn't planning on releasing it to market!

John