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Re: User Logon Auditing

From: Stephane Faroult <sfaroult_at_oriole.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 12:13:34 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0043D75F.20020405121334@fatcity.com>


dmeng_at_focal.com wrote:
>
> Greetings,
> I have a request from my boss to come up with a list of users for a
> particular database. Since this is 805 database logon trigger is not an
> option. Turning on audit trail will be an overkill and not sure if
> performance will be acceptable if we do that. Other than querying v$session
> periodically and hoping to get everybody, is there a better way to do this?
> DBA_USERS view is not going to work because there are too many duplicate
> and obsolete entries.
>
> TIA
>
> Dennis Meng
> Database Administrator
> Focal Communications Corp.

Why do you say that auditing will be an overkill? You do not have to record everything. You can have as little as storing a row into SYS.AUD$ each time somebody connects. Bearable.

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