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Foil 50 What are Profiles and Auditing?

From Full Relational Database HPDC-4 Presentation HPDC-4 Tutorial/CPS616 Spring95 -- August 1, Pentagon City Virginia. by Gang Cheng Marek Podgorny (Geoffrey Fox) * See also color IMAGE
Profiles and Auditing are the way to monitor (system logging) and record user database actions
They are used for:
  • investigating suspicious activity and .
  • gathering data about specific activity for performance tuning and system statistics.
These are just a DB way of saying logging.
As in other cases, Database field sometimes use its own different terms for the same thing in other fields.
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