Re: Auditing and statement execution failures ?

In <1992Apr26.163350.1_at_vxcrna.cern.ch> roeber_at_vxcrna.cern.ch writes:

>I have a question about auditing:
 

>Audit records are written after a statement is parsed, not executed.
 

>So if I audit insertions on a table "whenever successful," and then
>make an insertion which parses fine but which has an execution-time
>failure (like a duplicate unique value) and therefore doesn't execute,
>an audit record is still written showing it succeeded, yes?

That's precisely what I have found too. I have tried - in vain - to get our ORACLE support to confirm that the behaviour af ORACLE auditing is so.

To put it more general: the ORACLE auditing features will meet only a small part of the security and logging demands of a database system as they are stated in typical danish registry prescripts.

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