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This build of IDERA SQL Compliance Manager includes many fixed issues, including the following updates.

Enhancements

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title5.8.0 1 New features
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SQLCM-6206SQLCM-6206

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The default settings for capturing DML and Select activities were changed to Extended Events on SQL Compliance Manager 5.8. This change provides a significant performance improvement for the collection service efficiency in event collection, as well as on the performance impact on monitored instances.
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title5.8.1 Fixed issues
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    SQLCM-62076134
    SQLCM-62076134
    Resolved the issue where the audit configuration was not updated when new users were added to a Windows Domain group which were previously configured as Trusted Users. 
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    SQLCM-6219
    SQLCM-6219
    Resolved the issue where public roles were granted unnecessary permissions such as ALTER, EXECUTE, CONTROL, TAKE OWNERSHIP, and VIEW DEFINITION, on the audit stored procedures sp_SQLcompliance_Audit and sp_SQLCompliance_StartUp.
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    SQLCM-6230
    SQLCM-6230
    Resolved the issue where the Collection Server installer raised an error message requesting the removal of the newly restored SQLcompliance and SQLcomplianceProcessing databases. Currently, the migration of the Collection Server preserves the repository databases and displays the events on the console as expected.
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    SQLCM-6050
    SQLCM-6050
    Resolved the issue where users were unable to register instances that are unreachable or from an untrusted domain. Currently, users are able to register unreachable instances or instances from untrusted domains. Please note that while unreachable instances can be registered for auditing, it is required for the Agent service to be deployed manually on these server instances.
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title5.8.0 New features
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    SQLCM-6206
    SQLCM-6206
    The default settings for capturing DML and Select activities were changed to Extended Events on SQL Compliance Manager 5.8. This change provides a significant performance improvement for the collection service efficiency in event collection, as well as on the performance impact on monitored instances.
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    SQLCM-6207
    SQLCM-6207
    SQL Compliance Manager 5.8 introduces a new highly optimized index format where the application upgrades indexes in the background, from a none compression state to a page level compression type. This operation is done as an Online operation for supported SQL Server editions. Currently, the SQL Compliance Manager repository does not utilize the optimized indexes format. Rebuilding the indexes into the new optimized format provides a significant performance enhancement to the Management Console when viewing audited events and provides a considerable database repository size reduction resulting in less space usage on disk. For more information see Indexes rebuild operation
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    SQLCM-6210
    SQLCM-6210
    SQL Compliance Manager 5.8 modified the Collection Server and Agent to allow a mode where trace files are transferred by the Agent to the Collection Server without compression. Transferring files from the Agent to the Collection Server without compression provides a significant performance enhancement both on the server side in event collection efficiency and it reduces performance impact on the monitored instances. In the Agent Properties window, users with Agents in version 5.8 have the option to decide whether to compress or not compress the file transfer from the Agent directory to the Collection directory. For more information see Agent Properties - Trace Options tabSQL Compliance Manager 5.8 introduces a new highly optimized index format where the application upgrades indexes in the background, from a none compression state to a page level compression type. This operation is done as an Online operation for supported SQL Server editions. Currently, the SQL Compliance Manager repository does not utilize the optimized indexes format. Rebuilding the indexes into the new optimized format provides a significant performance enhancement to the Management Console when viewing audited events and provides a considerable database repository size reduction resulting in less space usage on disk. For more information see Indexes rebuild operation
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title5.8.0 Fixed issues

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title5.7.1 New features

There are no new features in this release.

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title5.5.0 Fixed issues

Administration issues

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    SQLCM-3759
    SQLCM-3759
    Audit thresholds appear enabled in the ReportCard even after removing and/or archiving an instance.     
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    SQLCM-4972
    SQLCM-4972
    SQL Compliance Manager 5.5 no longer fails to reach the Collection service on the active node after a successful failover in a clustered environment. 
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    SQLCM-5016/5017
    SQLCM-5016/5017
    Resolved the issue preventing SQL Scripts files with Supplementary Characters to work on the Collation SQL Server.  
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    SQLCM-3741
    SQLCM-3741
    Resolved the issue causing unexpected behavior during the manual upgrade of the SQL Compliance Manager Agent on a remote machine.
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    SQLCM-4674
    SQLCM-4674
    Resolved an issue causing overwritten permissions on the Agent Trace folder after deploying the SQL Compliance Manager Agent. 

Auditing issues

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    SQLCM-4952
    SQLCM-4952
    SQL Compliance Manager Agent no longer recreates stored procedures every second.
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    SQLCM-4947
    SQLCM-4947
    Resolved an issue in which SQL Compliance Manager was not showing Before-After data when enabling capture DML events using Extended Events. 
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    SQLCM-4574
    SQLCM-4574
    Resolved an issue causing DDL Events to display twice for the same event. 
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    SQLCM-4211
    SQLCM-4211
    Resolved an issue in which SQL Compliance Manager was not saving changes made in privileged users when applying regulation guidelines.
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    SQLCM-4680
    SQLCM-4680
    Resolved the issue preventing the user to capture SQL Statements for DDL and Security changes.
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    SQLCM-4947
    SQLCM-4947
    Resolved the issue preventing the capture of Before-After Data when using Extended Events auditing to capture DML events.

Reporting issues

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    SQLCM-4898
    SQLCM-4898
    Email notifications for Event Alerts now display the date and time in the Collection Server time zone. 

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    SQLCM-4645
    SQLCM-4645
    SQL Compliance Manager alerts users about the limit of SQL Statements when exporting reports. 

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    SQLCM-4850/4741
    SQLCM-4850/4741
    Resolved an issue preventing users to view and report on audit data or see events. 
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title5.4.2 New features
Warning

IDERA SQL Compliance Manager 5.4 and later depend on certain Microsoft components that did not ship with SQL Server versions prior to SQL Server 2012 SP1. If you are installing SQL Compliance Manager's Collection Service on a Repository running on SQL Server 2012 or below, you must install these components manually. For more information about this process, see Important installation steps for SQLCM 5.4.x and above.

Supports TLS 1.2 with SQL CM 5.4.2

IDERA SQL Compliance Manager 5.4.2 includes support for Transport Layer Security (TLS) version 1.2. The TLS protocol provides encryption, authentication, and data privacy and integrity when transferring information over a network, including VPN, VOIP, and instant messaging.

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title5.4.2 Fixed issues

Administration issues

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    SQLCM-4195
    SQLCM-4195
    Resolved an issue causing both Primary and Secondary nodes to list the AlwaysOn database as Secondary.
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    SQLCM-4924
    SQLCM-4924
    Resolved an issue preventing email from working for certain servers and types of events.

Auditing issues

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    SQLCM-2136
    SQLCM-2136
    Resolved an issue preventing audit of the Availabiity Group listener if a non-default port is used.
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    SQLCM-2216
    SQLCM-2216
    Database-level Privileged User Auditing settings are no longer overwritten by instance-level Privileged User Auditing settings.
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    SQLCM-3775/SQLCM-3648/SQLCM-4879
    SQLCM-3775/SQLCM-3648/SQLCM-4879
    Resolved the following integrity check issues:
    • users received an integrity check issue message although the scheduled integrity checks all passed
    • SQL Server startup events caused an integrity check failure
    • Integrity checks didn't match the Audit events in the SQLCM Repository
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    SQLCM-3789
    SQLCM-3789
    Resolved an issue causing the database name to return blank for Login Events in some places.
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    SQLCM-2529/SQLCM-4937
    SQLCM-2529/SQLCM-4937
    SELECT statements no longer appear as UPDATE statements.
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    SQLCM-3642
    SQLCM-3642
    Resolved an error that occurred when the eventId reached the max limit of Integer. The error was, "Cannot insert duplicate key row in object 'dbo.Events' with unique index 'IX_Events_eventId'.
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    SQLCM-4346/SQLCM-4621
    SQLCM-4346/SQLCM-4621
    No longer generates the Column Value Changed Data alert twice for Before-After auditing events.
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    SQLCM-3775, SQLCM-3648, SQLCM-4879
    SQLCM-3775, SQLCM-3648, SQLCM-4879
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    SQLCM-4649
    SQLCM-4649
    Resolved an issue causing an error when updating a table that contains an image and the table name contains a hyphen.
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    SQLCM-4955
    SQLCM-4955
    The default Events view now displays data for a single day rather than 30 days.
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    SQLCM-4950
    SQLCM-4950
    Resolved an issue preventing the proper function of the Exporting/Importing Database DML Filter audit settings.

Archiving issues

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    SQLCM-2512/SQLCM-4919
    SQLCM-2512/SQLCM-4919
    During archiving, users no longer receive a "Violation of PRIMARY KEY" error during archiving.

Reporting issues

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    SQLCM-3788
    SQLCM-3788
    Resolved an issue that prevented users from running the DML Activity (Before-After) report.
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title5.4.0 New features
Warning

IDERA SQL Compliance Manager 5.4 depends on certain Microsoft components that did not ship with SQL Server versions prior to SQL Server 2012 SP1. If you are installing SQL Compliance Manager's Collection Service on a Repository running on SQL Server 2012 or below, you must install these components manually. For more information about this process, see Important installation steps for SQLCM 5.4.x and above.

Improves archiving through the availability of SQL Server Extended Events

IDERA SQL Compliance Manager 5.4 includes support for event handling with SQL Server Extended Events. This optional feature is available for use in auditing instead of using SQL Trace. Running Extended Events offers a performance improvement over the default SQL Trace audit event gathering system and is available for instances running SQL Server 2012 and later. For more information about using the Extended Events option, see Using SQL Server Extended Events.

Includes new Sensitive Column Search

Included in this release is integration with a free tool from IDERA called 

Newtablink
aliasSQL Column Search
urlhttps://www.idera.com/productssolutions/freetools/sql-column-search
. Available from the IDERA SQL Compliance Manager Instance Details view, this feature allows you to search tables and columns on a targeted database to discover the location of sensitive data needing to be audited. For more information about using the Sensitive Column Search, see Sensitive Column Search window.

Offers SQL Compliance Manager Windows Console functionality in the Web Console

The following features previously available only through the IDERA SQL Compliance Manager Windows Console now are available in the Web Console as well:

Includes updated regulatory guideline templates

IDERA SQL Compliance Manager includes a number of regulatory guideline templates for customer use. IDERA SQL Compliance Manager 5.4 includes updates for these templates. For more information about this feature, see Comply with specific regulations.

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Installation and upgrade issues

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    SQLCM-2163
    SQLCM-2163
    Enabled Capture Transaction Status for DML Activity no longer replaces SQL statement values with variables.
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    SQLCM-2171
    SQLCM-2171
    This release resolves an issue that prevented auditing when two tables has the same name but different schema
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    SQLCM-2174
    SQLCM-2174
    An error no longer occurs while updating the audit configuration file due to duplicate database IDs.
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    SQLCM-2175
    SQLCM-2175
    Improves Collection Server performance while processing trace files.
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    SQLCM-2351
    SQLCM-2351
    Corrects an issue preventing the Collection Trace directory from being created when the user chooses a non-default installation path.
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    SQLCM-3211
    SQLCM-3211
    IDERA SQL Compliance Manager 5.3 now supports SQL Compliance Manager Agent silent installation.
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    SQLCM-3332
    SQLCM-3332
    Resolves an issue causing heartbeat alerts for instances after they are archived.
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    SQLCM-3637
    SQLCM-3637
    Resolves an error that appeared when a user added privileged users while applying a custom Audit Collection Level.
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    SQLCM-3638
    SQLCM-3638
    Fixed an error causing the collection of non-audited database data when Capture SQL statements for DML and SELECT activity is enabled.
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    SQLCM-3639
    SQLCM-3639
    Before-After data now works during an update when auditing selected columns.
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    SQLCM-3640
    SQLCM-3640
    Non-AlwaysOn Availability Group databases can no longer be added to an AG server for auditing.
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    SQLCM-4496
    SQLCM-4496
    Resolves an issue causing an invalid object name error with 'sys.dm_os_window_info' for SQL Server 2005 agents.
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Supports SQL Server 2016

IDERA SQL Compliance Manager 5.3.1 and later support audited and collection servers using Microsoft SQL Server 2016. For more information about supported platforms, see Software requirements.

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title5.3.1 Fixed issues

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title5.3.0 New features

Expanded the SQL Compliance Manager Web console to provide a richer set of capabilities online

IDERA SQL Compliance Manager 5.3 continues to build on the work developed by prior versions to bring a richer set of capabilities to the web console. New web capabilities include:

  • an ability to set up notifications for auditing thresholds; allowing a user to set up a threshold and select the delivery method such as email, Windows event log, or SNMP traps.
  • additional views such as the Enhanced Audited Database, Enhanced Alert, and New Logs views.
  • the ability to export views to PDF, CSV, and XML formats.
  • additional new widgets that show different activities and audited SQL Server instances.

Integration with IDERA Dashboard 2.2

IDERA Dashboard integration began with SQL Compliance Manager 5.0, which centralizes the common administration, tasks, and views across all IDERA SQL products. This release of SQL Compliance Manager expands this integration by supporting IDERA Dashboard 2.2, which includes the following widgets specific to SQL Compliance Manager:

  • SQL Compliance Manager Audited Instances Widget. Displays a list of audited SQL Server instances.
  • SQL Compliance Manager Enterprise Activity Report Card. Displays your SQL Compliance Manager enterprise activity in a line graph.

For more information about using SQL Compliance Manager widgets within the IDERA Dashboard, see Overview tab.

Limited Support for SQL Server 2016

IDERA supports installation of SQL Compliance Manager 5.3 on Microsoft SQL Server 2016 with limited technical support. Full technical support is available a short period after SQL Server 2016 is generally available.

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General

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    DE19332, SQLCM-2522
    DE19332, SQLCM-2522
    Resolved an issue that did not properly update group permissions after modification and honored group settings over the individual user account in some situations.
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    DE43232, SQLCM-2352
    DE43232, SQLCM-2352
    Improved Permissions Check functionality to prevent false or inconsistent results.

Installation

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    US16650, SQLCM-540
    US16650, SQLCM-540
    Renamed the SQL Compliance Processing database from SQLCompliance.Processing to SQLComplianceProcessing.
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    DE43945, SQLCM-2333
    DE43945, SQLCM-2333
    Corrected an issue preventing the ... button from properly working in the Add SQL Compliance Manager Agent Service window on Windows 2012/2012 R2 installations.

Licensing

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    DE46199, SQLCM-2165
    DE46199, SQLCM-2165
    Resolved an issue causing users with AlwaysOn Availability Groups to receive a message that the maximum number of servers is reached while they actually had less than that limit.

Services

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    DE44606, DE44676, DE41432, SQLCM-2313, SQLCM-2448, SQLCM-2345, SQLCM-2322
    DE44606, DE44676, DE41432, SQLCM-2313, SQLCM-2448, SQLCM-2345, SQLCM-2322
    Improved the Collection Service performance to be able to process a substantially large number of trace files.

Auditing

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    DE43812, SQLCM-2344
    DE43812, SQLCM-2344
    SQL Compliance Manager now can log events that are accessed through a view.
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    DE44527, SQLCM-2316
    DE44527, SQLCM-2316
    Sensitive column traces no longer include events from databases not configured for sensitive column auditing.
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    DE44679, SQLCM-2312
    DE44679, SQLCM-2312
    Resolved an issue that prevented SQL Compliance Manager from discovering and auditing new users added to the list of Trusted Users / Privileged Users within a domain group without manually updating the audit settings.
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    DE46329, SQLCM-2162
    DE46329, SQLCM-2162
    Exported audit settings now include database level privileged users.
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Fully supports the SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups feature 

SQL Compliance Manager 5.0 now allows DBAs to monitor their availability groups, availability replicas, and availability databases through AlwaysOn Availability in SQL Server 2012 and newer. AlwaysOn automatically switches auditing from the primary to the secondary replica in the event of failure as well as failback to primary when it comes back online. This advantage prevents a loss of audit data trail in the event of failure.

Support for this feature also comes with:

  • An Availability Group Statistics report that allows you view the historical health of your availability groups, availability replicas, and availability databases.
  • An Availability Group Topology report that allows you to view the current topology of your availability groups configuration.
  • Monitoring of key metrics specific to the AlwaysOn Availability Groups feature.
  • Queue Size and Transfer Rates charts.

For additional information on SQL Compliance Manager and the AlwaysOn Availability Groups feature, see Enable automatic failover using AlwaysOn Availability Groups.

Offers a technology preview of a new web-based SQL Compliance Manager Dashboard

Along with the integration of the IDERA Dashboard, SQL Compliance Manager 5.0 includes a preview of a newly-designed web console that offers quick views of key audit trail activities on your SQL Servers from any web browser. Identify key compliance issues quickly and provide an easy access point to non-DBAs without giving them access to the entire Management Console.

Added integration with the IDERA Dashboard

SQL Compliance Manager 5.0 now integrates with the IDERA Dashboard, a common technology framework designed to support the IDERA product suite. Users are able to obtain an overview of the status of their SQL Servers and hosted databases all in a consolidated view and navigate to individual product dashboards for details. The IDERA Dashboard provides a central set of services for managing users, product registry, instance registry, aggregated alerts across IDERA applications, a central web server, and tags for grouping instances. For more information about the IDERA Dashboard, see Navigate the IDERA Dashboard web console.

Moved to the Windows .NET 4.0 framework

SQL Compliance Manager 5.0 supports Microsoft Windows operating systems using .NET 4.0. Note that .NET 4.0 or later must be installed on the audited server. For more information about requirements, see Software requirements.

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    SQLCM-2428
    SQLCM-2428
    Active Trace is now properly cleared when necessary.
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    SQLCM-2386
    SQLCM-2386
    A change to the SQL Compliance Manager login filter settings from minutes to seconds fixes an issue that allowed new user events such as failed login attempts to be missed in reports.
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    SQLCM-2348
    SQLCM-2348
    You can now view Reports in .CSV format.
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    SQLCM-3247
    SQLCM-3247
    SQL Compliance Manager 5.0 includes an update that clarifies alert email triggers when users to have two alert rules for Sensitive Columns.
  • SQL Compliance Manager no longer displays conflicting data by including a fix that forces the collection of object names while processing trace file records.
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    SQLCM-2401
    SQLCM-2401
    Regular user accounts are no longer able to capture SQL text used in admin activities without enabling additional options.
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    SQLCM-3090
    SQLCM-3090
    When you have multiple columns selected for a particular table in Before-After Data (BAD), SQL Compliance Manager no longer labels events that update other columns as BAD events.
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    SQLCM-2384
    SQLCM-2384
    SQL Compliance Manager now includes descriptions for ALTER ANY SCHEMA and ALTER ANY USER in the tracejob.cs file.
  • The permissions check process is updated in SQL Compliance Manager 5.0 to avoid any issues when performing a check.
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    SQLCM-2350
    SQLCM-2350
    Event types 158 and 258 now include expanded details that display when these types of events occur.
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    SQLCM-2446
    SQLCM-2446
    SQL Compliance Manager Integrity Check now properly tracks and reports on deleted rows.



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