Template masks

As you become accustomed to the types of auditing that seem useful at your site, you might notice that certain auditing practices occur repeatedly. You can create template audit masks to help set up auditing for situations that recur or for various types of users.

For example, you might define a template mask called _guest and copy it to individual user masks for people who use your database server for a short time. You can copy a template mask to a user mask and modify it at the same time, perhaps turning off events that were audited in the template mask.

Important: All template mask names must be unique, contain fewer than eight characters, and begin with an underscore (_). These naming rules distinguish template masks from individual user masks.

You cannot create template masks with the following names because the database server already uses them:

_default
_require
_exclude

When the database server is installed, no template masks exist. The number of template masks you can create is unlimited.