Question

Is there a good way to tell who created a stored procedure in SQL Server 2005 (that also works in 2008)? In SQL Management Studio I can right mouse/properties on a proc to get the created date/time but how do I discover the creator?

Answer 1

It may be too late for you now, but you can keep track of DDL activity.

We have a table in our administrative database that gets all the activity put in it. It uses a DDL trigger, new to 2005. These scripts create a table in your admin DB (SQL_DBA for me), create a trigger on the model db, create triggers on existing databases. I also created a sp_msforeachDB statement at the end to disable all of them.

One caveat – your databases need to be in compatibility mode of 90(in options for each db), otherwise you may start getting errors. The account in the EXECUTE AS part of the statement also needs access to insert into your admin table.

USE [SQL_DBA] GO /****** Object:  Table [dbo].[DDL_Login_Log]    Script Date: 03/03/2009 17:28:10 ******/ SET ANSI_NULLS ON GO SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON GO CREATE TABLE [dbo].[DDL_Login_Log](     [DDL_Id] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,     [PostTime] [datetime] NOT NULL,     [DB_User] [nvarchar](100) NULL,     [DBName] [nvarchar](100) NULL,     [Event] [nvarchar](100) NULL,     [TSQL] [nvarchar](2000) NULL,     [Object] [nvarchar](1000) NULL,  CONSTRAINT [PK_DDL_Login_Log] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED  (     [DDL_Id] ASC,     [PostTime] ASC )WITH (PAD_INDEX  = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE  = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS  = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS  = ON) ON [PRIMARY] ) ON [PRIMARY] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --This creates the trigger on the model database so all new DBs get it USE [model] GO /****** Object:  DdlTrigger [ddl_DB_User]    Script Date: 03/03/2009 17:26:13 ******/ SET ANSI_NULLS ON GO SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON GO CREATE TRIGGER [ddl_DB_User]  ON DATABASE FOR DDL_DATABASE_SECURITY_EVENTS AS   DECLARE @data XML declare @user nvarchar(100)  SET @data = EVENTDATA() select @user = convert(nvarchar(100), SYSTEM_USER)  execute as login='domain\sqlagent' INSERT sql_dba.dbo.DDL_Login_Log     (PostTime, DB_User, DBName, Event, TSQL,Object)     VALUES     (@data.value('(/EVENT_INSTANCE/PostTime)[1]', 'nvarchar(100)'),     @user,     db_name(),     @data.value('(/EVENT_INSTANCE/EventType)[1]', 'nvarchar(100)'),     @data.value('(/EVENT_INSTANCE/TSQLCommand/CommandText)[1]','nvarchar(max)'),     @data.value('(/EVENT_INSTANCE/ObjectName)[1]', 'nvarchar(1000)') )  GO SET ANSI_NULLS OFF GO SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER OFF GO   -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --CREATE TRIGGER IN ALL NON SYSTEM DATABASES  DECLARE @dataname varchar(255), @dataname_header varchar(255), @command VARCHAR(MAX), @usecommand VARCHAR(100) SET @command = ''; DECLARE datanames_cursor CURSOR FOR SELECT name FROM sys.databases  WHERE name not in ('master', 'pubs', 'tempdb', 'model','msdb') OPEN datanames_cursor FETCH NEXT FROM datanames_cursor INTO @dataname WHILE (@@fetch_status = 0) BEGIN  PRINT '----------BEGIN---------'  PRINT 'DATANAME variable: ' + @dataname;  EXEC ('USE ' + @dataname);  PRINT 'CURRENT db: ' + db_name();  SELECT @command = 'CREATE TRIGGER DBA_Audit ON DATABASE FOR DDL_DATABASE_LEVEL_EVENTS AS DECLARE @data XML DECLARE @cmd NVARCHAR(1000) DECLARE @posttime NVARCHAR(24) DECLARE @spid NVARCHAR(6) DECLARE @loginname NVARCHAR(100) DECLARE @hostname NVARCHAR(100) SET @data = EVENTDATA() SET @cmd = @data.value(''(/EVENT_INSTANCE/TSQLCommand/CommandText)[1]'', ''NVARCHAR(1000)'') SET @cmd = LTRIM(RTRIM(REPLACE(@cmd,'''',''''))) SET @posttime = @data.value(''(/EVENT_INSTANCE/PostTime)[1]'', ''DATETIME'') SET @spid = @data.value(''(/EVENT_INSTANCE/SPID)[1]'', ''nvarchar(6)'') SET @loginname = @data.value(''(/EVENT_INSTANCE/LoginName)[1]'',     ''NVARCHAR(100)'') SET @hostname = HOST_NAME() INSERT INTO [DBA_AUDIT].dbo.AuditLog(Command, PostTime,HostName,LoginName)  VALUES(@cmd, @posttime, @hostname, @loginname);'   EXEC (@command);  FETCH NEXT FROM datanames_cursor INTO @dataname; PRINT '----------END---------' END CLOSE datanames_cursor DEALLOCATE datanames_cursor  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------  ----Disable all triggers when things go haywire sp_msforeachdb @command1='use [?]; IF  EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.triggers WHERE name = N''ddl_DB_User'' AND parent_class=0)disable TRIGGER [ddl_DB_User] ON DATABASE'