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10g Release 2 (10.2)

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DBA_AUDIT_TRAIL

DBA_AUDIT_TRAIL displays all audit trail entries.

Related View

USER_AUDIT_TRAIL displays all audit trail entries related to the current user.

Column Datatype NULL Description
OS_USERNAME VARCHAR2(255)   Operating system login username of the user whose actions were audited
USERNAME VARCHAR2(30)   Name (not ID number) of the user whose actions were audited
USERHOST VARCHAR2(128)   Client host machine name
TERMINAL VARCHAR2(255)   Identifier of the user's terminal
TIMESTAMP DATE   Date and time of the creation of the audit trail entry (date and time of user login for entries created by AUDIT SESSION) in the local database session time zone
OWNER VARCHAR2(30)   Creator of the object affected by the action
OBJ_NAME VARCHAR2(128)   Name of the object affected by the action
ACTION NUMBER NOT NULL Numeric action type code. The corresponding name of the action type is in the ACTION_NAME column.
ACTION_NAME VARCHAR2(28)   Name of the action type corresponding to the numeric code in the ACTION column
NEW_OWNER VARCHAR2(30)   Owner of the object named in the NEW_NAME column
NEW_NAME VARCHAR2(128)   New name of the object after a RENAME or the name of the underlying object
OBJ_PRIVILEGE VARCHAR2(16)   Object privileges granted or revoked by a GRANT or REVOKE statement
SYS_PRIVILEGE VARCHAR2(40)   System privileges granted or revoked by a GRANT or REVOKE statement
ADMIN_OPTION VARCHAR2(1)   Indicates whether the role or system privilege was granted with the ADMIN option
GRANTEE VARCHAR2(30)   Name of the grantee specified in a GRANT or REVOKE statement
AUDIT_OPTION VARCHAR2(40)   Auditing option set with the AUDIT statement
SES_ACTIONS VARCHAR2(19)   Session summary (a string of 16 characters, one for each action type in the order ALTER, AUDIT, COMMENT, DELETE, GRANT, INDEX, INSERT, LOCK, RENAME, SELECT, UPDATE, REFERENCES, and EXECUTE. Positions 14, 15, and 16 are reserved for future use. The characters are:
  • - - None

  • S - Success

  • F - Failure

  • B - Both

LOGOFF_TIME DATE   Date and time of user log off
LOGOFF_LREAD NUMBER   Logical reads for the session
LOGOFF_PREAD NUMBER   Physical reads for the session
LOGOFF_LWRITE NUMBER   Logical writes for the session
LOGOFF_DLOCK VARCHAR2(40)   Deadlocks detected during the session
COMMENT_TEXT VARCHAR2(4000)   Text comment on the audit trail entry, providing more information about the statement audited

Also indicates how the user was authenticated. The method can be one of the following:

  • DATABASE - Authentication was done by password

  • NETWORK - Authentication was done by Oracle Net Services or the Advanced Security option

  • PROXY - Client was authenticated by another user; the name of the proxy user follows the method type

SESSIONID NUMBER NOT NULL Numeric ID for each Oracle session
ENTRYID NUMBER NOT NULL Numeric ID for each audit trail entry in the session
STATEMENTID NUMBER NOT NULL Numeric ID for each statement run
RETURNCODE NUMBER NOT NULL Oracle error code generated by the action. Some useful values:
  • 0 - Action succeeded

  • 2004 - Security violation

PRIV_USED VARCHAR2(40)   System privilege used to execute the action
CLIENT_ID VARCHAR2(64)   Client identifier in each Oracle session
ECONTEXT_ID VARCHAR2(64)
Application execution context identifier
SESSION_CPU NUMBER   Amount of CPU time used by each Oracle session
EXTENDED_TIMESTAMP TIMESTAMP(6) WITH TIME ZONE   Timestamp of the creation of the audit trail entry (timestamp of user login for entries created by AUDIT SESSION) in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) time zone
PROXY_SESSIONID NUMBER   Proxy session serial number, if an enterprise user has logged in through the proxy mechanism
GLOBAL_UID VARCHAR2(32)   Global user identifier for the user, if the user has logged in as an enterprise user
INSTANCE_NUMBER NUMBER   Instance number as specified by the INSTANCE_NUMBER initialization parameter
OS_PROCESS VARCHAR2(16)   Operating System process identifier of the Oracle process
TRANSACTIONID RAW(8)   Transaction identifier of the transaction in which the object is accessed or modified
SCN NUMBER   System change number (SCN) of the query
SQL_BIND NVARCHAR2(2000)   Bind variable data of the query
SQL_TEXT NVARCHAR2(2000)   SQL text of the query


Note:

The SQL_BIND and SQL_TEXT columns are only populated if the AUDIT_TRAIL initialization parameter is set to db,extended.


See Also:

"AUDIT_TRAIL"