8i Database, W2K server.  Apps team looking for audit trail functionality.
I've outlined the pros and cons of Oracle Audit vs using Logminer to extract
audit info from archived redo logs as below:

- Archiving of Redo Logs will be carried out in any case.  
- All required auditing data as far as I can determine would be captured in
redo logs.  
- Using Logminer to investigate them looks like it would be more difficult
than using Oracles Auditing features.
- Introducing Oracle Auditing has limited functionality and has a
performance overhead.  
- Oracle auditing would require programming of triggers to capture before
and after values which in turn has another potential performance hit.
- Oracle audit data needs to be monitored and requires additional management
time.

I've not used Oracle Auditing or Logminer so the above is based upon some
reading I've done.  If I've missed any important points please give me
feedback on same.  Also anyone any opinions, or better still experience, as
to which is better from performance POV.

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