Oracle 11g standard vs enterprise

Question

hi,
Is there a way I can compare the features between 11g standard vs enterprise version. Currently we have an enterprise version installed . But we are thinking to downgrade it to standard edition due to the licensing cost.
Thanks

Answer 1

user13168644 wrote:
t I am only interested to audit the "SELECT" statements. The whole idea is to see , apart from the schema owner , who else including dba or users with dba privileges are issuing select statements against the salary and other sensitive data. Any thoughts about that , in standard edition ?Oracle exposes no triggers at the SELECT level to which we can attach such an audit function.
So, the only option you have is to replace auditing with prevention.
At least with ordinary users, this can be done quite easily with VIEWs. Have two views on your sensitive tables, one which excludes the columns you're worried about and one which includes them. Grant privileges on each view accordingly. This may necessitate some rewriting of your application. A variation on this approach would be to have one view, which programmatically obfuscates the values in the sensitive columns depending on a value stored in a user-defined CONTEXT.
Of course, this won't keep out the privileged users. Disable CREATE SESSION for the schema owner: nobody should be using that account in production.
But as for your DBAs ... You'll just have to take some of the money you save from the Enterprise Edition licenses and pay them more, to keep them honest. Let's face it, as you're springing for Audit Vault right now, your DBAs can hack the audit trail anyway, and you'll never know.
Cheers, APC