Re: Audit command help

Teresa Redmond wrote:

> Hello again, (oracle 8.1.5 on win2kPro)
>
> In testing the auditing I set up last week, I've worked up a few more
> questions. Is it possible to audit objects by who does something to
> them? I've been reading the Audit Statement in
> http://download-east.oracle.com/docs/cd/F49540_01/DOC/index.htm and
> this doc show two audit statements: for object, and for sql
> statements. For what I want to do, seeing who deletes or updates what
> and what statement is used (among a few other things), should I use
> the audit sql statement syntax?
>
> As in: "audit delete table, update table, by user1, user2, user3;".
>
> Also, I finished putting in the audit statements for the tables last
> week, but have seen thousands and thousands of results put in sys.aud$
> and sys.dba_audit_object on the "select" statement, which I did not
> include in my audit statement. I entered "audit delete, update on
> schema.table;" for every table in the schema. I'm unsure why I would
> see results on a "select", but I am trying to learn this so am not
> surprised that I don't know why. :-)
>
> I just ran "noaudit all;" and am trying to clear out the almost
> 700,000 rows that appeared since last week. Delete from sys.aud$ is
> *very* slow...
>
> Thanks again for your help!

Look up DDL triggers at: http://www.psoug.org/reference/library.html

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