Mike - I find it ironic that the CFOs got the big stock options from the
questionable practices that have caused the crackdowns, but the lowly DBAs
are taking the brunt of the post Enron paranoia.
My favorite auditor story. Years ago I worked for a time-sharing
provider and we were being subjected to an NRC audit. The auditor looked
like a veteran high school principal and kind of scared us all. He was
filling out a form and asked us the nature of our business. My boss
expansively stated that "we sell computing cycles ", hoping to derail the
audit into an irrelevant conversation. The auditor didn 't reply so we
glanced at each other, impressed with how savvy this non-I.T. person was. He
asks some more questions from his form, then asks "and where do you store
the unused computer cycles? ". We all kind of groaned.
Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams@(protected)
-- --Original Message-- --
From: oracle-l-bounce@(protected) [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@(protected)]On
Behalf Of Mike Hennesy
Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 9:13 AM
To: oracle-l@(protected)
Subject: RE: AD_APPLIED_PATCHES
Thanks to all who replied. My sanity check is complete. I just sent my
seventh reply on this issue indicating it will be my last unless he can have
Oracle tell me how to do it. Has anyone else noticed that auditors are even
less trusting post Enron than pre Enron.
Once again thanks for the sanity check, I appreciate everyone 's replies.
Thanks - Mike
"Mercadante, Thomas F " <thomas.mercadante@(protected) > wrote:
Mike,
God I love auditors! LOL.
Reminds me of one of the audits I went thru. We were running on a VAX. The
auditors came and said "let me see the console paper report ". We said "We
don 't have one ". They didn 't believe us. We brought them into the computer
room. No console. You 'd thought that we were stealing the crown jewels.
Took us some time to convince him that consoles went away.
God that was funny.
And by the way, I am not running Oracle apps and I don 't have that table
either. So I think you are on solid ground.
Good Luck!
Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional
-- --Original Message-- --
From: Mike Hennesy [mailto:orcl9ps8dba@(protected)]
Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 8:53 AM
To: oracle-l@(protected)
Subject: AD_APPLIED_PATCHES
I am running an Oracle 8.1.7.3 database and have an auditor who is
requesting that I produce a listing of all the rows in the table
APPLYSY.AD_APPLIED_PATCHES. The problem I have is that table doesn 't exist.
We do NOT have Oracle applications and I believe that this is a table that
comes with Oracle Apps 11i. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office " / >
The auditor is insistent that the table should be there and is wondering
what I 'm trying to hide. If you can confirm this is an Oracle Apps table for
me or let me know what I should run if it is just a script that I should
have run that I missed.
All replies will remain confidential; I 'm just trying to verify my sanity.
Thanks - Mike
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