i need to monitor mysql users in my databases

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Hi There

Am very familia with Mysql Database , and i have been working in a IT Domain dealing with Databases running sql scripts to query different reports .

My question is very simple , i would like to know if there is a way to find out all the records or the script run in my database by different users. since am the one who administrate it , i would like to know if there is a table that holds or records all the information or script used by different users. this will help me to administrates well and know what each user did within a period of a day .

Thanks very much in advance for your help .

Posted 31-Jan-12 6:40am

ft85

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I don't think MySQL or other database management systems based on client-server model is designed to monitor the users. (Is someone can prove me wrong, please post a comment.)

So, the solution would be monitoring the users' activity in some intermediate tier. But in this case, all database connectivity should be completely closed for any access from outside and made only accessible by this intermediate tier (which you can run on the same host or same local network as the database host). All requests to the database should be sent only to the intermediate tier, and this tier should relay all requests and query results to/from database management system.

You can still use a 3-tier model; in this case your monitoring functionality could be added to a logic tier.

You can choose any communication model for this tier to work on the network; I would suggest to prefer a WCF service. WCF could be self-hosted by the tier service. If you are not using .NET or not all of your clients are .NET application, it could be a Web service.

Please see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-tier_architecture[^],
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Communication_Foundation[^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms733128.aspx[^],
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_service[^].

—SA

Posted 31-Jan-12 8:47am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Updated 31-Jan-12 8:49am

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Espen Harlinn 31-Jan-12 15:08pm

For MySQL there are some options that can be explored, like working with the server logs.

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Espen Harlinn · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-31T09:06:00

Have a look at:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/account-activity-auditing.html[^]

http://fromdual.com/mysql-logon-and-logoff-trigger-for-auditing[^]

For general auditing you can try working with the logs:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/server-logs.html[^] - While I haven't tried this, it looks promising.

MS SQL Server is more feature complete[^] when it comes to auditing.

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Espen Harlinn