How to find number of times record is accessed for oracle

Question

I have oracle 10g database in my application. How to find out that how many times the a particular records has been accessed in particular table.

Answer 1

In general, to do that, you need to access records in a table though stored procedure, not through SELECT statement.

But, here is how it could be simplified:

1. you add a requirement that any SELECT to your table should have a function call:

   select yourtable.* from yourtable
   where yourfunct('yourtable', yourtable.key) = 'done'
   

   this could be easily done through view plus revoking permissions to read the table itself

2. in your function, you either save table/key pair inside a table in a package (you don't need to start a transaction to do that) or you start an autonomous transaction and write into a real table.

   writing into a variable in a package is not thead safe, but it is much faster.

   creating a transaction is slooooooower, but it will garantie a result.

My personal preference would be to question an original task. Maybe it would be enough to create sort of 'log entry' table where requests for data are recorded.