RE: audit user activities

Many thanks to all who replied !

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Audrey,

Are these direct connections or coming through JVM or some other middle tier server where the userid cannot be discerned.

You can use the audit statement for SQL statements to look at any of the following:

specific SQL statements
only system priv statements
any statement issued by a particular user any statement of the same type issued during a particular session you can also extend this to audit only those statements which succeed for only those which fail.

HTH Regards,

Bill Burke
"The Kinder and Gentler DBA"
www.OracleGuru.com
www.KBMotorsports.biz

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Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 9:14 AM
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>Dear list !
>I need to audit / log several activities of users
>against the DB .
>I need to trace a user's login/logout as well as
>DML operations on certain
>tables.
>I understand that there are more than one way to
>achieve these.
>Could you please share your experiences / tricks on
>the matter.
>Thanks a lot !
>Andrey.

Andrey,

   Really depends on the level of detail you need. If you only need to know which _oracle_user_ has connect and which tables s/he has modified, AUDIT is enough. If you want to know more (eg who was connected at the OS level, from which client or terminal, which row was deleted or what was modified) triggers are the only way to go IMHO.

Regards,

Stephane Faroult
Oriole

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