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🛡️ DBWatch

Database Monitoring & Change Tracking System

DBWatch is a Python-based CLI tool that monitors SQL databases, detects schema and data changes, compares snapshots, and generates audit reports.

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Key Features

📊 Database Monitoring

Monitor SQL database tables and track record changes over time.

📸 Snapshot Tracking

Create database snapshots for future comparison and auditing.

🔍 Change Detection

Detect inserted, updated, and deleted records between snapshots.

📄 Reporting

Generate structured reports summarising detected database changes.

⏰ Scheduled Checks

Run automated monitoring jobs using scheduling support.

💻 CLI Workflow

Use simple terminal commands to run snapshots, comparisons, and reports.

Demo Commands

# Create a database snapshot
python cli.py snapshot

# Compare two snapshots
python cli.py compare

# Generate a report
python cli.py report

# Start scheduled monitoring
python cli.py monitor

Tech Stack

Python

Core application development

SQLAlchemy

Database connection and query handling

Rich CLI

Professional command-line interface

Pandas

Data processing and reporting

Schedule

Automated monitoring tasks

SQLite / SQL

Database support and testing

Why This Project Matters

DBWatch demonstrates practical software engineering skills in Python, database management, automation, data auditing, CLI design, and report generation. It is useful for data quality monitoring, ETL validation, compliance reporting, migration testing, and database backup verification.

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