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 ...

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 ...

SQL Server 2008 has some great new features. One of them is the new auditing capability. Now we can audit at the server, database and table level according to specifications provided by the DBA. We ...

If you use SQL Server, you know there is a significant price difference between the Standard and Enterprise editions. If you have had the Enterprise version for a while, you probably bought it for ...

In the complex and frustrating world of virtualization licensing, Microsoft has had its ups and downs and caused its fair share of IT aggravation. Licensing Microsoft products in a physical world has ...