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Focus on:
SQL Server Auditing & Regulatory Compliance
Welcome to SQLsmarts, Idera’s newsletter for SQL Server Professionals!
We welcome your questions, comments or suggestions.
Email us at SQLsmartseditor@Idera.com.
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In this issue:
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| Product News |
Just Announced: SQL compliance manager v2.0
Auditing & Continuous Compliance for SQL Server
SQL compliance manager version 2.0 provides a new level of real-time auditing and continuous compliance for SQL Server environments. New features in version 2.0 include:
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- Support for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 & SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services, including:
- Run the SQL compliance manager Repository as SQL Server 2005
- Track SQL Server 2000 & 2005 audit events in a single repository
- Audit over 20 new trace events, 40+ new object categories, and 400 new object types unique to SQL Server 2005
- Use new security features unique to SQL Server 2005 including impersonation and schema access
- Powerful new customized alerting
- Create fully customized alerts and reduce unwanted alerts with robust filtering capabilities
- Customize delivery and priority of alerts. Receive alerts via email, Windows Event Log, or integrate with Microsoft Operations Manager
- Use pre-defined reports to analyze alerts and ensure compliance
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Designed in partnership with Ernst & Young, SQL compliance manager will help you ensure that your SQL Server databases are in compliance with internal or external audit standards such as Sarbanes-Oxley, GLBA, HIPAA or BASEL II. Unlike traditional auditing approaches, SQL compliance manager provides a continuous auditing and compliance solution – helping you avoid the “fire-drill” and dramatically reducing the time, effort, and cost of formal audits.
SQL compliance manager Alert Rules User Interface
Learn more about SQL compliance manager v2.0 
Try it now, Free for 30 days!
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| In the News |
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Idera Awarded SQL Server 2005 “Front Runner” Status from Microsoft
Company’s Core Applications Now Support SQL Server 2005
Idera is proud to announce that our core management, administration, and compliance solutions are now ready for SQL Server 2005 and have been tested and awarded SQL Server 2005 ‘Front Runner’ status by Microsoft. This includes:
- SQL diagnostic manager: Real-time performance monitoring and deep diagnostics
- SQLsafe: High performance backup and recovery
- SQL compliance manager: Auditing & continuous compliance
Read the press release
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| Product Review |
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SQL-Server-Performance.Com Review of SQL compliance manager 2.0
By Brad McGehee
SQL-Server-Performance.Com takes an in-depth look at SQL compliance manager, examining
all of the key features and benefits of the product. After carefully reviewing and testing the software,
SQL compliance manager meets or exceeds all tests and is recommended by SQL-Server-Performance.com
Read the full review
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SQL Server 2005 Auditing Enhancements
Author: Scalability Experts, Inc.
Excerpt from: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Changing the Paradigm, Copyright 2006, Sams Publishing
“The SQL Server 2005 team has done everything possible to ensure that this release provides the most secure and robust environment possible to build database applications. Following the Trustworthy Computing initiative, SQL Server 2005 is secure by design, secure by default, and secure in deployment.”
Read the Auditing Enhancements offered in SQL Server 2005
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| Webcast |
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Webcast: Addressing Top 5 DBA Pain Points
Presented by: Stephen Wynkoop
SSWUG.org
April 5, 2006
This webcast addresses the top 5 DBA pain points including performance investigation, security settings, and more. Attendees will learn quick tips on how to address these pain points, how to resolve issues and how to apply best practices to your systems. The webcast will provide information on each item and show how you can not only address them in triage mode, but also how to plan for them and what native and third-party solutions are available to help out.
Register now
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| Tips & Tricks |
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Create a Schema Change Alert
Do you suffer from developers making schema changes without asking for permission? Easily let them know you’re watching and aware by creating a new alert using SQL compliance manager.
Find out how
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