For Puzzle1 - this is easily doable using VPD. You can do almost everytnig using VPD. For Puzzle2 - I doubt this is doable ( to hide information from you dba? get serious! ;-) ), but Oracle promises this is possible using the new tecnology Oracle Database Vault: http://www.oracle.com/database/database-vault.html Rgds, Yavor On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 13:33:07 +0300, VIVEK_SHARMA <VIVEK_SHARMA@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Folks > > > > > Puzzle 1 - For a Banking Application, for certain V.I.P. Accounts > (translating to respective rows in a set of Tables), the general Staff > should NOT be able to View the respective Account info. But Bank-wide > summation reports fired by the same staff should consider the Data from > the VIP Accounts too. > > > > > Puzzle 2 Additionally DBAs also should also NOT be able to see the above > data. > > > > > Any ideas how this can be achieved? > > > > > Qs Does Row based Encryption perchance exist in 10.2? If so, is it a > possible solution? If so, does it have performance overheads? > > > > > Thanks indeed > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l