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Database audit

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ5227394 ↗
Source-derived summary

Database auditing involves observing a database to be aware of the actions of database users. Database administrators and consultants often set up auditing for security purposes, for example, to ensure that those without the permission to access information do not access it.

References

Further reading

Gallegos, F. C. Gonzales, D. Manson, and S. Senft. Information Technology

Control and Audit. Second Edition. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press LLC, 2000.

Ron Ben-Natan, IBM Gold Consultant and Guardium CTO. Implementing Database Security and Auditing. Digital Press, 2005.

KK Mookhey (2005). IT Audit.

Editorial summary

“Database audit” enters the record as open-knowledge reference entry. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Database, audit and Open-knowledge can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000, 2005—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Database, audit and Open-knowledge.
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“Database audit” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Database, audit and Open-knowledge provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5227394. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2000 and 2005.

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Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Database audit” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.