Auditing a database is the first step towards staying updated about database changes. However, if specific, highly sensitive data needs reviewing, an immediate notification of any change is preferable.
Sending email alerts to one or more recipients is one of the most common ways of immediate notification. Sending emails for every change in a database is not advised. It will, in most cases, quickly fill your inbox, and add many unnecessary actions, which can also affect the overall application performance. Therefore, it is important to choose the changes that you want to be alerted about, carefully.
April 4, 2013