Dennis, Yeah you need to do a through read on the audit statement in the sql language manual. Depending on what you really need the following is probably a good example: AUDIT SELECT ON hr.employees WHENEVER SUCCESSFUL; Again it depends on what your needs are. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dennis Williams Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 2:44 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Simple auditing question List, I haven't used Oracle Auditing much, so this is probably a newbie question. Need to turn on auditing for a high-volume OLTP database. My understanding is that if I turn on AUDIT TABLE, it gets everything. I don't need to know all the inserts, updates on these tables. Is there a simpler audit setting? I probably am missing a concept. Thanks, Dennis Williams