This is just intended to demonstrate redo usage of various insert operations rather than answer the whole question. Results on my 10g instance are not 100% deterministic, but the broad picture remained the same each time I ran through.
For the heap tables, I do not know why the insert /*+ append */ generated more redo.
testbed:
create table heap_noappend(id integer, dummy char(500));
create table heap_append(id integer, dummy char(500));
create global temporary table gtt_noappend(id integer, dummy char(500));
create global temporary table gtt_append(id integer, dummy char(500));
create global temporary table gtt_results(stage integer, val integer);
test:
insert into gtt_results(stage, val)
select 0, value from v$statname join v$sesstat using(statistic#)
where sid=sys_context('userenv','sid') and name='redo size';
insert into heap_noappend(id, dummy)
select level, 'A' from dual connect by level<1000;
insert into gtt_results(stage, val)
select 1, value from v$statname join v$sesstat using(statistic#)
where sid=sys_context('userenv','sid') and name='redo size';
insert /*+ append */ into heap_append(id, dummy)
select level, 'A' from dual connect by level<1000;
insert into gtt_results(stage, val)
select 2, value from v$statname join v$sesstat using(statistic#)
where sid=sys_context('userenv','sid') and name='redo size';
insert into gtt_noappend(id, dummy)
select level, 'A' from dual connect by level<1000;
insert into gtt_results(stage, val)
select 3, value from v$statname join v$sesstat using(statistic#)
where sid=sys_context('userenv','sid') and name='redo size';
insert /*+ append */ into gtt_append(id, dummy)
select level, 'A' from dual connect by level<1000;
insert into gtt_results(stage, val)
select 4, value from v$statname join v$sesstat using(statistic#)
where sid=sys_context('userenv','sid') and name='redo size';
result:
select *
from( select decode(stage,1,'heap noappend',
2,'heap append',
3,'gtt noappend',
4,'gtt append') as operation,
val-lag(val) over(order by stage) as redo
from gtt_results)
where redo is not null;
OPERATION REDO
------------- ----------------------
heap noappend 606932
heap append 690768
gtt noappend 41488
gtt append 256
Best Answer
You can do this with auditing, but it incurs a performance overhead and does not work retrospectively.
Read the section Verifying Security Access with Auditing in the Oracle® Database Security Guide 11g Release 2 (11.2).
I'll add that in the majority of cases, somebody in the organisation thinks that this type of auditing is required, but more often than not it is just a misguided requirement.