Does anyone know of a trigger that will reliably fire on alter system and capture the commands via the objects such as : DBMS_STANDARD.SYSEVENT; NVL(DBMS_STANDARD.DICTIONARY_OBJ_OWNER,'NULL'); DBMS_STANDARD.DICTIONARY_OBJ_TYPE; DBMS_STANDARD.DICTIONARY_OBJ_NAME; I have a trigger that is "on database before alter", however, ALTER SYSTEM does not trigger it. Either that or I have not yet found the correct dbms_standard types to capture the output. The trigger right now just inserts the various type values into a table. For Alter Table it works great, but ALTER SYSTEM produces nothing. Josh C.