Re: log changes trigger

Thank you, I been searching the manuals for this but somehow it must have passed me by. The tricky one are obviuosly always the easiest in the end.

//Jonas

In article <944t17$eon$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>,   steveee_ca_at_my-deja.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Why don't you just use 'USER' ?
>
> Your insert statement would look like
>
> insert into my_log
> > (username, change_date, other_fields...)
> > values
> > (USER, sysdate, :old.other_fields...);
>
> USER can be used in the same
> way as you're using SYSDATE . It inserts the name of the logged in
 user
> performing the insert.You don't need V$SESSION at all.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Steve
>
> In article <944j73$59h$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>,
> Jonas Malmsten <deja_at_malmsten.net> wrote:
> > I need to write a trigger to log changes made to a table and by who
> > these changes were made. I have created a log table having a field
> > user_name varchar2(30) where I intend to store the username for
 anyone
> > who changed the my_table, along with the previous values, before it
 was
> > changed. Currently my trigger looks something like this (I dont need
 to
> > log delete och insert events).
> >
> > create or replace trigger tr_u_my_table
> > after update on my_table
> > for each row
> > uname varchar2(30);
> > begin
> > select username into uname
> > from v$session where audsid = userenv('SESSIONID');
> > insert into my_log
> > (username, change_date, other_fields...)
> > values
> > (uname, sysdate, :old.other_fields...);
> > end;
> > /
> >
> > My problem is that not all users have permission to select from
> > v$session. Is there another way to do this or do I need to grant
 select
> > on v$session to all_users?
> >
> > //Jonas
> >
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