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find updated table name [message #644411]

Thu, 05 November 2015 03:59

guddu_12
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Dear All,

We have some software programme written by people who left the company and i am debugging it. When we modify certain attribute through GUI then it goes and update oracle table. there are 120 table and i want to know which table got modified

Please help

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Re: find updated table name [message #644412 is a reply to message #644411]

Thu, 05 November 2015 04:48

cookiemonster
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Trace the session

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Re: find updated table name [message #644413 is a reply to message #644411]

Thu, 05 November 2015 04:56

guddu_12
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Any simple way, trace is not allowed to us

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Re: find updated table name [message #644417 is a reply to message #644413]

Thu, 05 November 2015 05:45

Michel Cadot
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Audit the tables.

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Re: find updated table name [message #644420 is a reply to message #644413]

Thu, 05 November 2015 06:43

EdStevens
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guddu_12 wrote on Thu, 05 November 2015 04:56

Any simple way, trace is not allowed to us

Why?

If you are working in a warehouse and your boss tells you to unload a trailer, but won't let you use the forklift, then his priorities are something other than getting the trailer unloaded.

Do you not have access to the source code?

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Re: find updated table name [message #644421 is a reply to message #644411]

Thu, 05 November 2015 06:45

guddu_12
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No
access to source code and firing query from reporting tool so not easy

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Re: find updated table name [message #644422 is a reply to message #644421]

Thu, 05 November 2015 06:47

Michel Cadot
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No answer n this?

Michel Cadot wrote on Thu, 05 November 2015 12:45

Audit the tables.

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Re: find updated table name [message #644423 is a reply to message #644422]

Thu, 05 November 2015 07:16

guddu_12
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Hi Michael,

Auditing means gathering stats or what? we don't have and audit column in any of the table which track the records for insert or update

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Re: find updated table name [message #644424 is a reply to message #644421]

Thu, 05 November 2015 07:51

John Watson
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What access do you have? You said you were debugging the software, can you actually see or change anything?

audit, by the way, is described here,
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/network.112/e36292/auditing.htm

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Re: find updated table name [message #644425 is a reply to message #644423]

Thu, 05 November 2015 08:01

Michel Cadot
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... and https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e41084/statements_4007.htm#SQLRF01107

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Re: find updated table name [message #644427 is a reply to message #644425]

Thu, 05 November 2015 08:20

cookiemonster
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And if you're allowed to run audit but not trace then something doesn't make sense.
If you can't access the source code then you're going to need one of those two. Trace would be my preferred option.

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Re: find updated table name [message #644428 is a reply to message #644421]

Thu, 05 November 2015 08:45

gazzag
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You can't debug something that you cannot see.

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Re: find updated table name [message #644433 is a reply to message #644421]

Thu, 05 November 2015 09:38

BlackSwan
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guddu_12 wrote on Thu, 05 November 2015 04:45

No
access to source code and firing query from reporting tool so not easy

How will you know that you have correctly identified the target table?

You could attempt a brute force search if you can know within a very narrow time window when the DML occurred by using DBMS_LOGMNR to isolate what UPDATE statement was issued during this same time period.

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