Database administrators can employ various techniques to audit the use of SQL Server databases for security and regulatory compliance purposes. One of the most common methods is creating SQL Server ...

A compliance audit can sometimes feel like a database administrator's worst nightmare, but it doesn't have to be. The key to acing a SQL Server database audit is preparedness; planning ahead and ...

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

Many seasoned database administrators howl in protest at the mere suggestion of running native auditing functions due to the poor performance and log management headaches that often come with auditing ...

Whether an enterprise application is custom-built or purchased off-the-shelf, you can always delve under the hood into the database layer to add your own specific functionality, like alerting and ...

Microsoft has announced on its Azure blog that you can now use database auditing with Azure SQL Data Warehouse. Matt Usher, senior program manager of SQL Engineering calls this "A key security ...

Traditional native audit tools and methods are useful for diagnosing problems at a given point in time, but they typically do not scale across the enterprise. The auditing holes that are left in their ...

Tenable Network Security announced a new capability for Nessus users to audit the configuration of many different SQL databases. These checks are only available to Security Center users and ...

I've had so many good discussions with vendors and DBAs recently it's really hard to know where to begin. I'm going to start with the most recent talk I had with a vendor (not going to say just yet) ...

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...