RE: Can DB tell if connection from odbc?

From: Grant Allen <Grant_at_towersoft.com.au>
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 16:18:19 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.004C5AEF.20020902161819@fatcity.com>

Denham Eva[SMTP:EvaD_at_TFMC.co.za] wrote:
> >Hello Gurus
> >
> >Is there anyway that Oracle 817/Win2K can pick up whether the user is
> connecting via ODBC at all?
> >As I understand it the ODBC comes in through the Net8 and therefore the
> above is not possible.
> >
>

Denham,

It might be possible, but it depends on what the ODBC-based application is. If it's a custom built program, you're probably out of luck. If it's something like Access, Excel, Lotus 123, etc., then almost all of these rely on issuing "select * from all_catalog" when they connect (the SQL call generated from the ODBC SQLTables API call), to see what tables are available.

So you could write some kind of auditing procedure to track which users are making this call, and spot them that way.

Not perfect, but might work for you.

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