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Re: LogMiner and Auditing

From: <jkstill_at_cybcon.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 15:19:54 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.002B4A8A.20010214144545@fatcity.com>

Pretty much my take on it.

LogMiner is a good specialized tool, but probably not appropriate for serious auditing.

Thanks

Jared

On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Joseph S. Testa wrote:

> Nope, not auditing as in the pure essence of auditing like oracle
> auditing.
>
> But I've done the concept of pin pointing what user dropped a table
> based on the DML of the dictionary tables, tab$, col$, etc.
>
> So thats an extreme subset at best. Besides with oracle auditing you
> can audit select statements(if i remember correctly), where as logminer
> only does DML against tables and with some serious investigative work
> DDL against tables(which in reality is only DML against the data
> dictionary).
>
> hth, joe
>
>
> jkstill_at_cybcon.com wrote:
>
> <SNIP OF THE STORY>
>
> > Seriously, has anyone successfully used LogMiner for auditing
> > in a production database.
> >
> > Joe, your input here would be appreciated.
> >
> > Jared
>
> --
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> Performing Remote DBA Services, need some backup DBA support?
> For Sale: Oracle-dba.com domain, its not going cheap but feel free to
> ask :)
>

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