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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> Re: Capturing Schema changes ??
George,
If you really want details about what has truly occurred (instead of
recording that *something* has occurred), I think that DDL triggers are the
way to go (I don't think that audit has much evolved since at least the days
of Oracle 5 ...). Beware though that some DDL statements fire several
triggers (eg ALTER TABLE ... ADD CONSTRAINT ... PRIMARY KEY ... if no index
to enforce the constraint already exists). But for the more trivial cases,
it can become tricky.
This, however, looks to me like the ultimate rampart against barbarians
changing wildly the schema, which hopefully should not happen, especially in
a bank (I know ...). IMHO, CREATE privileges should be granted sparingly.
Now, if we assume that schema changes are applied by some happy few who,
hopefully, know what they are doing, your problem looks like a version
control problem. In that case, AUDIT (to get the dates when applied) + any
SCCS, RCS or whatever to manage the SQL scripts may provide a perfectly
workable solution to get an historical report of changes, if this is mostly
what you need.
Regards,
Stephane Faroult
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 10:55 , 'Leonard, George' <GLeonard_at_wesbank.co.za> sent:
Hi all
We are in need of a solution to capture all changes to a schema, table
creates, alters drops,
procedure creates...
functions, views, indexes etc etc.
one option is Auditing,
The other is via a trigger based solution.
Any ideas, views, and examples would be appreciated.
George
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