Skip to Main Content
Oracle in a Nutshell
book

Oracle in a Nutshell

by Rick Greenwald, David C. Kreines
December 2002
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
928 pages
85h 29m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Content preview from Oracle in a Nutshell

Name

AUDIT (Schema Objects)

Synopsis

AUDIT {object_option[,object_option ...] | ALL}
ON {[schema.]object_name | DIRECTORY directory_name | DEFAULT}
[BY SESSION [WHENEVER [NOT] SUCCESSFUL] 
[BY ACCESS [WHENEVER [NOT] SUCCESSFUL]

Sets up auditing for a specific schema object.

Keywords

object_option

Indicates that a particular operation will be audited. The following operations are valid: ALTER, AUDIT, COMMENT, DELETE, EXECUTE, GRANT, INDEX, INSERT, LOCK, RENAME, SELECT, and UPDATE. The keyword ALL specifies all of these operations.

object_name

Name of the schema object to be audited.

DIRECTORY directory_name

Specifies the name of a directory to audit.

DEFAULT

Establishes the specified object option as the default for objects that have not yet been created.

BY SESSION

Causes Oracle to write a single record for all SQL statements of the same type issued in the same session.

BY ACCESS

Causes Oracle to write a single record for each audited statement.

WHENEVER SUCCESSFUL

Chooses auditing only for SQL statements that complete successfully.

WHENEVER NOT SUCCESSFUL

Chooses auditing only for SQL statements that fail or result in errors.

Common keywords and clauses: schema.

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Oracle Internals

Oracle Internals

Donald K. Burleson
Oracle PL/SQL

Oracle PL/SQL

Lewis Cunningham
Oracle Essentials: Oracle9i, Oracle8i and Oracle8, Second Edition

Oracle Essentials: Oracle9i, Oracle8i and Oracle8, Second Edition

Rick Greenwald, Robert Stackowiak, Jonathan Stern

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 0596003366Errata Page