You also need to take the application layers into account. If the user authentication occurs at the app/web level and the database login is a 'generic' account or connection pooling is used, you might not be able identify the user at the database level. Regards, Daniel Fink Rachel Carmichael wrote: > As far as I know, there is nothing within the database that will log > last sign on. Rather than turn on auditing, what about a login trigger > that records the userid and date in a table? > > You can collect more information that way -- machine they logged in > from, program they used etc.. > > Rachel ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------