Depending on your company's budget you have available for this, you may consider giving Oracle Audit Vault a shot. It does just that. Stefan ========================= Stefan P Knecht Senior Consultant Systems Engineering OPITZ CONSULTING Schweiz GmbH Seestrasse 97 CH-8800 Thalwil Mobile +41-79-571 36 27 stefan.knecht@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.opitz-consulting.ch OCP 9i/10g SCSA SCNA ========================= On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Terrian, Thomas J Mr CTR DLA J6DIB < Tom.Terrian.ctr@xxxxxxx> wrote: > All, we have a requirement to keep 1 year worth of audit records. I am > kicking around the idea of hourly moving all of the sys.aud$ records > from each production database to a central database. That way it would > keep sys.aud$ small for each database. > > However, this will have its own set of complications......I would have > to build new dba_audit views on the central database (in order to have a > database name field), what happens when the structure of sys.aud$ > changes between database versions, etc. > > Has anyone tackled something like this already? > > Another option would be to forget about the repository database idea > .....instead hold 1 months worth of data online for each database and > storing the other 11 months offline somewhere (maybe use RMAN for > this?). > > Again, any ideas?........ > > Thanks, > Tom Terrian > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > >