SQL Language Guide > SQL Statements > CREATE SECURITY_ALARM
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CREATE SECURITY_ALARM
Valid in: SQL, ESQL
Note:  Security alarms can be enabled on request by contacting Actian Support.
The CREATE SECURITY_ALARM statement specifies, for tables, databases, or the current installation, the events to be written to the security log.
Syntax
The CREATE SECURITY_ALARM statement has the following format:
[EXEC SQL] CREATE SECURITY_ALARM [alarm_name] ON
             [TABLE | DATABASE] [schema.]object_name {, [schema.]object_name} |
                CURRENT INSTALLATION
             [IF SUCCESS | FAILURE | SUCCESS, FAILURE]
             [WHEN SELECT | DELETE | INSERT | UPDATE | CONNECT | DISCONNECT]
             [BY [USER | GROUP | ROLE] auth_id{, auth_id} | PUBLIC;]
             [RAISE DBEVENT [dbevent_owner.]dbevent_name [dbevent_text]]
object_name
Specifies the table or database for which security events are logged.
IF SUCCESS | FAILURE | SUCCESS, FAILURE
Specifies when logging occurs:
SUCCESS
Creates a log record when a user succeeds in performing the specified type of access.
FAILURE
Creates a log record when a user attempts to perform the specified type of access and fails (the query is terminated). Users can fail to gain access to a table because they lack the required permissions.
SUCCESS, FAILURE
Logs all attempts to access the tables.
WHEN clause
Specifies the types of access to be logged. Any combination of the access types shown in the syntax diagram can be specified, in a comma separated list.
BY clause
Specifies the user names of the users for whom logging is performed.
To log access attempts for all users, specify PUBLIC.
Default: PUBLIC
Permissions
You must own the table.
Related Statements
DISABLE SECURITY_AUDIT
ENABLE SECURITY_AUDIT
DROP SECURITY_ALARM
HELP SECURITY_ALARM
CREATE SECURITY_ALARM Examples
1. Log all successful changes to the employee table.
CREATE SECURITY_ALARM ON TABLE employee
    IF SUCCESS WHEN INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE BY PUBLIC;
2. Specify alarms for a specific user group or application role.
CREATE SECURITY_ALARM clerk_update ON TABLE secure_data IF FAILURE WHEN UPDATE BY GROUP clerk
These alarms are fired when a session connects as the specified group or role.
3. Specify alarm on a particular database or the current installation to raise an alarm when user, spy, connects to any database.
CREATE SECURITY_ALARM secconnect ON CURRENT INSTALLATION WHEN CONNECT BY USER spy
4. Raise an optional database event, secconnect, as the result of an alarm firing when user, spy, connects to database sec1.
CREATE SECURITY_ALARM secconnect ON DATABASE sec1
WHEN CONNECT BY USER spy
RAISE DBEVENT secconnect 'user spy connected to sec1 database';
Last modified date: 10/30/2024