Re: auditing tables

From: Paul Baumgartel <treegarden_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 09:53:59 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.003FEE79.20020129085022@fatcity.com>

Oracle Designer will create journal tables, and the triggers to populate them. It might be worth capturing your DB design in Designer and using this feature (of course, I'm sure Designer isn't cheap, so that's a consideration as well). You'd gain the benefit of having your design stored in a repository, too.

PB

• Rachel Carmichael <wisernet100_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
  > triggers -- that do an insert into an auditing table. Been there,
  > done
  > that:
  >
  > Insert -- add a row to the auditing table of all the new values with
  > one extra column "type" =I
  >
  > Delete add a row to the auditing table with all the old values and
  > type=D
  >
  > Update -- add two rows to the auditing table -- first with old values
  > and type = O
  > second with all the new values and type =N
  >
  >
  > --- "Foelz.Frank" <Foelz.Frank_at_Scheidt-Bachmann.de> wrote:
  > > TNX for your answers.
  > >
  > > What I need is exactly what Oracle doesn't support. Logging "who"
  > > changed
  > > "what" in a
  > > special area of our database.
  > >
  > > I think triggering the events will be much more specific and more
  > > easy to
  > > change.
  > >
  > > In case all our applications use the same database and user, I am
  > > trying to
  > > check out
  > > what application is changing monitored tables (i.e.
  > > c:\app\userapp\app.exe
  > > is changing
  > > table1).
  > > What do you think of that ??
  > >
  > > greets
  > >
  

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