Database Management Guide

This guide provides complete information for planning, installing, and maintaining Microsoft SQL Server databases required for the auditing features available in Server Suite. This software helps you comply with regulatory requirements and improve accountability by collecting detailed information about user activity on Linux, UNIX, and Windows computers. Auditing also enables you to monitor user activity for immediate analysis or to investigate specific incidents, such as application failures or security breaches.

This guide does not provided detailed instructions for configuring or managing Microsoft SQL Server. In addition, different versions of Microsoft SQL Server might operate differently than described in this guide. Every attempt has been made to give accurate, representative steps to guide you. However, you might find discrepancies between the steps in this guide and what you see in your own environment.

Intended Audience

This guide is intended for database administrators who are responsible for preparing and maintaining the databases required to store audit‑related information. If you are a Server Suite administrator, but not a Microsoft SQL Server administrator, you should review the information in this guide with your Microsoft SQL Server system administrator.

If you have an account that has been assigned the Microsoft SQL Server system administrator role, but you are new to Microsoft SQL Server, you should use this guide in conjunction with documentation provided by Microsoft for the version of SQL Server you are using.

This guide includes the following sections: