Yes, you are correct about the granting. It is a little thing called SOX. ________________________________ From: Hallas, John, Tech Dev [mailto:John.Hallas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 3:22 AM To: Burton, Laura; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: DBA Role Privs Others have pointed out the auditing functionality. However who is granting DBA privileges if it is not you. I assume you are the DBA (or one of them) so why would other users have the authority/privileges to grant the DBA privileges. John ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Burton, Laura Sent: 05 May 2006 18:42 To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: DBA Role Privs I want to be notified every time the DBA role is granted or revoked via email. I found the procedure which takes care of the email. Next I created a trigger on Insert into the Dba Role Privs view and received the error that this can not be performed on a view. Does anyone know the underlying Sys table(s) to use, or a better way of checking this? Thank you, Laura