Data Auditing

From: Bill Buchan <wbuchan_at_uk.intasys.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 09:18:31 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.003B00C7.20011019093854@fatcity.com>

Does anyone have any recommendations on auditing data changes on several tables? I want to keep before and after data along with username/timestamp.

I'm thinking of a DML trigger on each table and each with its own audit table? Or what about a single audit table (using TO_CHAR to convert all non-character data into the BEFORE and AFTER columns; only CHAR, VARCHAR2, DATE and NUMBER datatypes are used). That should be slightly more generic.

Either way it seems a bit messy. Anybody got a better idea? (This audit trail has to be readily visible to the users - ie. a table - Log Miner isn't really practical).

Many thanks for any suggestions.
- Bill.

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