Oracle-L: Re: auditing CREATE DATABASE

From: Tim Gorman <Tim_at_SageLogix.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 09:50:52 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.004EC592.20021017095052@fatcity.com>

What a tongue-in-cheek answer: "only catches successful attempts"! I like his/her sense of humor...

Issuing a CREATE DATABASE command against an already mounted and open database triggers an ORA-01501 error. If you are running Oracle8i or above, you could create an AFTER SERVERERROR database-event trigger to capture such errors and then log the occurrance in a table somewhere.

Regardless of what version you are running, ORA-01501 gets logged to the "alert.log" file, so you can catch it that way, too...

Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 10:41 AM

Is there a way of capturing info on people who issue CREATE DATABASE statements?

My Oracle Support technician says auditing won't catch this, only catches successful attempts.

Regards,
Patrice Boivin
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