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In effect YES. But you could if you really want create a logon trigger that tries to capture certain activites.
Orlando Amador wrote:
> I'm looking at the Oracle documentation and found the following
> statement:
>
> Audit records are never generated by sessions established by
> the user SYS or connections with administrator privileges.
> Connections by these users bypass certain internal features of
> Oracle to allow specific administrative operations to occur
> (for example, database startup, shutdown, recovery, and so on).
>
> Does this mean than a DBA could disable the audit trail, change
> tables, enable the audit trail and not leave a trace?
>
> is there any solutions to this? Any 3rd party solutions that could
> address this limitation?
>
> Saludos,
> Orlando M. Amador
> oamador_at_psgapr.jnj.com
Received on Mon May 28 2001 - 17:27:59 CDT