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Unified Auditing policies can slow down the upgrade

Posted on August 28, 2018 by Auditing 0

Unified Auditing policies can slow down the upgradeI posted several blog posts about Unified Auditing in the past. And recently a large customer in the UK alerted me about their upgrades with PDBs from 12.1 to 12.2 taking much longer when Unified Auditing policies were enabled. It looks like as if Unified Auditing policies can slow down the upgrade.

We did some further investigations. See the results below.

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You find a good number of blog posts explaining how to migrate to Unified Auditing, the performance tweaks in Oracle 12.1.0.2 and some other things:

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Unified Auditing – is it ON or OFF in Oracle Database 12.2.0.1?

Posted on May 16, 2017 by Auditing Oracle Database 12.2.0.1 9

Just a quick update to my blog post from September 2014:

Unified Auditing – is it ON or OFF in Oracle 12c?

Any changes in Oracle Database 12.2.0.1?

Yes. Significant changes happen to Unified Auditing in Oracle Database 12.2.0.1. Mostly internally as the mechanism used to dump the audit records in Oracle 12.1.0.x when Unified Auditing was on turned out to be very good for write performance, but not so good when you tried to read data. See my blog post from a few weeks ago how to deal with this performance implication and a potential patch:

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Unified Auditing – Performance Improvements in Oracle 12.1.0.2

Posted on April 19, 2017 by Auditing Performance Tuning Security 12

Unified Auditing got introduced in Oracle Database 12.1.

Unified Auditing - Performance Improvements in Oracle 12.1The downsides of the “old” auditing facilities became obvious when too many users had activities or transactions at the same time leading to audit records being written into AUD$. Contention was a typical issue. The same thing happened when too many users tried to login at the same time. Furthermore protecting the auditing information required Database Vault as there was no default protection available.

This – and some other things – should be remedied by Unified Auditing which is available since Oracle Database 12c. It gets enabled in sort of a “mixed …

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How to migrate to Unified Auditing?

Posted on February 3, 2015 by Auditing 11

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What is Unified Auditing and is it on by default?

Unified Auditing is the new auditing facility since Oracle Database 12c. But the “old” auditing is still working. And there are a few things to mention if you’d like to make the right choice. I have written some things about it a while ago but as I discovered yesterday my previous blog post (https://blogs.oracle.com/UPGRADE/entry/unified_auditing_is_it_on)  doesn’t satisfy all my needs.

The initial motivation to move towards the new Unified Audit trail is audit performance. The audit records will be written into the read-only table AUDSYS in SYSAUX tablespace. …

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Mike Dietrich
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