Oracle-L: RE: Audit Drop Table

From: John Kanagaraj <john.kanagaraj_at_hds.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 12:23:59 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0042DA7B.20020319122359@fatcity.com>

> How do I turn this auditing on? Something like 'Audit drop on
> scott.emp'.
> Is it possible? I am thinking, not. There are hundreds of users in the
> database, and I dont wish to turn full auditing on for all
> these users.

How about 'AUDIT DELETE ANY TABLE BY ACCESS WHENEVER SUCCESSFUL;'?? This will catch the culprit in case it was being done by someone else (DBA!!) with overriding privs. Make sure that AUDIT_TRAIL = DB (the default is NONE)

> And no drop statement exists in v$sqlarea currently. And damn

DDL statements 'degenerate' into DML statements against SYS objects, and that's why you ain't seeing them.

John Kanagaraj
Oracle Applications DBA
DBSoft Inc
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