| title | titleSuffix | description | author | ms.author | ms.date | ms.service | ms.subservice | ms.topic | f1_keywords | helpviewer_keywords | dev_langs | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CREATE DATABASE AUDIT SPECIFICATION |
SQL Server (Transact-SQL) |
Create a database audit specification object using the SQL Server audit feature. |
sravanisaluru |
srsaluru |
03/23/2022 |
sql |
t-sql |
reference |
|
|
|
[!INCLUDE SQL Server]
Creates a database audit specification object using the [!INCLUDEssNoVersion] audit feature. For more information, see SQL Server Audit (Database Engine).
:::image type="icon" source="../../includes/media/topic-link-icon.svg" border="false"::: Transact-SQL syntax conventions
CREATE DATABASE AUDIT SPECIFICATION audit_specification_name
{
FOR SERVER AUDIT audit_name
[ { ADD ( { <audit_action_specification> | audit_action_group_name } )
} [, ...n] ]
[ WITH ( STATE = { ON | OFF } ) ]
}
[ ; ]
<audit_action_specification>::=
{
action [ ,...n ]ON [ class :: ] securable BY principal [ ,...n ]
}
[!INCLUDEsql-server-tsql-previous-offline-documentation]
audit_specification_name
Is the name of the audit specification.
audit_name
Is the name of the audit to which this specification is applied.
audit_action_specification
Is the specification of actions on securables by principals that should be recorded in the audit.
action
Is the name of one or more database-level auditable actions. For a list of audit actions, see SQL Server Audit Action Groups and Actions.
audit_action_group_name
Is the name of one or more groups of database-level auditable actions. For a list of audit action groups, see SQL Server Audit Action Groups and Actions.
class
Is the class name (if applicable) on the securable.
securable
Is the table, view, or other securable object in the database on which to apply the audit action or audit action group. For more information, see Securables.
principal
Is the name of database principal on which to apply the audit action or audit action group. To audit all database principals use the database principal public. For more information, see Principals (Database Engine).
WITH ( STATE = { ON | OFF } )
Enables or disables the audit from collecting records for this audit specification.
Database audit specifications are non-securable objects that reside in a given database. When a database audit specification is created, it is in a disabled state.
Users with the ALTER ANY DATABASE AUDIT permission can create database audit specifications and bind them to any audit.
After a database audit specification is created, it can be viewed by users with the CONTROL SERVER permission, or the sysadmin account.
The following example creates a server audit called Payrole_Security_Audit and then a database audit specification called Payrole_Security_Audit that audits SELECT and INSERT statements by any member of the public database role, for the HumanResources.EmployeePayHistory table in the [!INCLUDE sssampledbobject-md] database. This has the effect that every user is audited as every user is always member of the public role.
USE master ;
GO
-- Create the server audit.
CREATE SERVER AUDIT Payrole_Security_Audit
TO FILE ( FILEPATH =
'D:\SQLAudit\' ) ; -- make sure this path exists
GO
-- Enable the server audit.
ALTER SERVER AUDIT Payrole_Security_Audit
WITH (STATE = ON) ;
GO
-- Move to the target database.
USE AdventureWorks2022;
GO
-- Create the database audit specification.
CREATE DATABASE AUDIT SPECIFICATION Audit_Pay_Tables
FOR SERVER AUDIT Payrole_Security_Audit
ADD (SELECT , INSERT
ON HumanResources.EmployeePayHistory BY public )
WITH (STATE = ON) ;
GO B. Audit any DML (INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE) on all objects in the sales schema for a specific database role
The following example creates a server audit called DataModification_Security_Audit and then a database audit specification called Audit_Data_Modification_On_All_Sales_Tables that audits INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE statements by users in a new database role SalesUK, for all objects in the Sales schema in the [!INCLUDE sssampledbobject-md] database.
USE master ;
GO
-- Create the server audit.
-- Change the path to a path that the SQLServer Service has access to.
CREATE SERVER AUDIT DataModification_Security_Audit
TO FILE ( FILEPATH =
'D:\SQLAudit\' ) ; -- make sure this path exists
GO
-- Enable the server audit.
ALTER SERVER AUDIT DataModification_Security_Audit
WITH (STATE = ON) ;
GO
-- Move to the target database.
USE AdventureWorks2022;
GO
CREATE ROLE SalesUK
GO
-- Create the database audit specification.
CREATE DATABASE AUDIT SPECIFICATION Audit_Data_Modification_On_All_Sales_Tables
FOR SERVER AUDIT DataModification_Security_Audit
ADD ( INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE
ON Schema::Sales BY SalesUK )
WITH (STATE = ON) ;
GO CREATE SERVER AUDIT (Transact-SQL)
ALTER SERVER AUDIT (Transact-SQL)
DROP SERVER AUDIT (Transact-SQL)
CREATE SERVER AUDIT SPECIFICATION (Transact-SQL)
ALTER SERVER AUDIT SPECIFICATION (Transact-SQL)
DROP SERVER AUDIT SPECIFICATION (Transact-SQL)
CREATE DATABASE AUDIT SPECIFICATION (Transact-SQL)
ALTER DATABASE AUDIT SPECIFICATION (Transact-SQL)
DROP DATABASE AUDIT SPECIFICATION (Transact-SQL)
ALTER AUTHORIZATION (Transact-SQL)
sys.fn_get_audit_file (Transact-SQL)
sys.server_audits (Transact-SQL)
sys.server_file_audits (Transact-SQL)
sys.server_audit_specifications (Transact-SQL)
sys.server_audit_specification_details (Transact-SQL)
sys.database_audit_specifications (Transact-SQL)
sys.database_audit_specification_details (Transact-SQL)
sys.dm_server_audit_status (Transact-SQL)
sys.dm_audit_actions (Transact-SQL)
Create a Server Audit and Server Audit Specification