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SQL Compliance Manager
Compliance and Backup Strategy: A Closer Look at the Connection
The Intersection of Compliance and Digital Data Organizations of all sizes and shapes must comply with government and industry regulations. Some...
Announcing the General Availability of IDERA SQL Compliance Manager 6.1
Introducing IDERA SQL Compliance Manager 6.1: The Latest Release of Our Leading SQL Server Auditing Solution SQL Compliance Manager is the leading...
Mastering the Complexities of Analytics for Big Data in Healthcare, Part 2
In Part 1, we discussed the properties of big data and how it affects the data gathered in the healthcare industry. Here we go over methods for...
Mastering the Complexities of Analytics for Big Data in Healthcare, Part 1
Analytics for big data has rapidly become indispensable for nearly all clinical and operational processes in the healthcare industry. Such functions...
How to Maintain Security Compliance to Prevent a Costly Breach
As businesses and government organizations shift a growing amount of their operations online, data security has become an increasingly important...
Dealing with the Complexities of Regulatory Compliance
Why is Data Privacy Important? An incredible amount of digital information is generated daily, with an estimated 1.7 MB of data being created every...
Understanding Azure SQL Database Architecture
This blog will give you a glimpse into the internal architecture of SQL Database and brings to light some of the critical concepts that SQL Database...
How to Maintain Security Compliance to Prevent a Costly Data Breach
As businesses and government organizations shift a growing amount of their operations online, security has become an increasingly important issue....
An error occurred grooming alerts – Timeout Expired
I groom alerts monthly to reclaim disk space. This month when trying I get the following error . Anyone have a suggestion on what I can do or...
Idera dashboard core service locking my service account
Hi, I changed the password for our service account and now notice that this account keeps getting locked and narrowed it down to the idera dashboard...
Fixed table column width on the certain Add forms.
When in database properties, the tables names in the Before-After Data tab is the only place I could extend the column to view table names. The...
Changing from auditing a node to auditing a listener
If SQL Compliance manager service is already installed on both nodes in a cluster, is there a way to change from auditing the node to auditing the...
Issue setting up Before-After Report
I want to use Idera Compliance Manager to keep an audit of who did what on some specific tables in a database. I registered my...
Fatal error during SQL Compliance Manager upgrade
When I try to upgrade SQL Compliance Manager 5.7.1 to 5.8.0, I receive “A fatal error occurred” near the end of the upgrade...
Issue with SQLcm after upgrading OS
I recently upgraded the OS on my SQLcm server to 2019. I currently have two registered servers and initially was having trouble with ...
One or more servers are in critical condition.
In Idera SQL compliance manager under System Status, I get an error message saying "One or more servers are in critical condition" When I...
Alert Statistics Report
Working on generating a report showing only alert counts total and per monitored database for a given time period. Currently, the...
Can PowerShell be used to change setting in Compliance Manager
I am looking for a way to make to various setting in Compliance Manager using poinstead on going into each monitored instance. Things I'm...
Mirror Database – How to setup SQL compliance manager on a Mirrored database.
I need to setup SQL Compliance Manager, for both the Principle and Mirrored database. I got the Principle setup just fine, but the mirror one does...
Can SQL Compliance Manager store audit logs as a flat file?
I understand that SQL Compliance Manager has a tamper proof repository to store its audit logs, but our security department uses Splunk and wants...
SQLcm Alert help
I would like to generate an alert in SQL Compliance Manager if someone attempts to login with a login that doesn't exist in SQL Server. ...
SQL Compliance Mgr – Flood of error log messages due to SQL Trace start/stop
Using SQL Compliance Manager 5.6 with SQL Server 2016 and older servers, the SQL Server error log gets flooded by messages such as: SQL Trace ID 3...
Alert request on number of failed logins in a period of time
I would like to create a login failure alert that triggers if a login results in x number of failures in a period of time, say 5 minutes. Does...