AutoAudit script
Paul Nielsen, John Sigouin
www.sqlserverbible.com

Version 3.30 is available in the downloads tab.

AutoAudit is a SQL Server (2005, 2008, 2012) Code-Gen utility that creates Audit Trail Triggers with:

• Insert - event logged to Audit table
• Update - old and new values logged to Audit table
• Delete - logs all final values to the Audit table
• CreatedDate, CreatedBy, ModifiedDate, ModifiedBy, and RowVersion (incrementing INT) columns optionally added to table
• View to reconstruct deleted rows
• UDF and view to reconstruct Row History
• UDF to recover the data from a table at any point in time - NEW FOR 3.30
• Schema Audit Trigger to track schema changes
• Re-code-gens triggers when Alter Table changes the table

Version 3.30 major changes:

• Added the _TableRecovery UDF that returns the data from a table as it existed at a specified point in time
• Added User-configurable prefixes and suffixes for AutoAudit views and UDF's
• Added a parameter to configure the date style to either 113 or 121 in AutoAudit tables
• Added QUOTENAME delimiters around TableName entry in AuditHeader table
• Added LoginName to the SchemaAudit table
• Changed the default behaviour of the pAutoAuditDropAll stored procedure to 0 (don't drop) instead of 1 and added a safeguard confirmation parameter.
• Added the Comment column to the AuditAllExclusions table

Version 3.20h major changes:

• Added an option for pAutoAuditAll to exclude all tables from specified schemas

Version 3.20e major changes:

• Handle primary keys with up to 5 columns
• implemented Quotename and all over to handle any table and column name
• Save changes for a subset of the columns in a table
• Schema support so that the Audit tables and objects can be created in any schema (not just dbo)
• Added a _RowHistory view for each audited table
• Implemented Quotename() all over to ensure AutoAudit works with any table and column name
• Adjusted AutoAudit to make it work with case-sensitive database collation
• Added the option for users to rename the Created, CreatedBy, Modified, ModifiedBy, RowVersion columns
• Added audit data archiving feature

There is close to 80 changes between version 2.00h and 3.30. Please refer to the Documention TAB and setup script file for all the details. I also added information in the guide section to explain the new features in more details.


Version 2 adds:

• Optional logging of submitted SQL Batch
• Optional Insert logging (none, event, all values)
• Optional strict or loose user context logging
• Optional base table DDL columns (Created, CreatedBy, Modified, ModifiedBy, and RowVersion)

initial AutoAudit blog post:
http://sqlblog.com/blogs/paul_nielsen/archive/2007/01/15/codegen-to-create-fixed-audit-trail-triggers.aspx

ScreenCast demo at: http://www.screencast.com/t/kxnHkX9LN6Q