Re: Options for auditing data changes

  • From: Sriram Kumar <k.sriramkumar@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Sreejith.Sreekantan@xxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:33:32 +0530

Hi,

have you looked at flashback data archive?. Could be a good fit

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/issue-archive/2008/08-jul/flashback-data-archive-whitepaper-129145.pdf



best regards



On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Sreejith S Nair <
Sreejith.Sreekantan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Friends,
>
> I thought I will get some inputs on my  following implementation. The
> requirement is to audit some data changes with in the system.( Oracle 10.2
> on RHEL 4.7 )
> The audit is required in a sense that, the before images of data and
> information of who changed the data is required. I have looked at options
> like Oracle Auditing,FGA and so. But this cannot give me audit for the  data
> changes,when and who changed.
>
> The first thing that comes into my mind are using triggers . Another option
> is using log miner. I have successfully tested it out with both of these
> approaches. The environment is like
>
> 1 ) For some critical tables for which audit is required triggers were
> written ( ours is an OLTP application )
> 2 ) For some non critical tables, log miner which was called by a stored
> procedure which runs at certain periods is used.
> 3 ) audit data is stored in a different schema , with same table names as
> in base schema.
>
> I would like to know your thoughts on this.
>
> Thank You,
>
> Kind Regards,
> Sreejith Nair
>
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