We seem to have experienced a pretty significant increase over the last few months in the number of audit rows created for inserts and deletes on t_cust_rank. I'm seeing some accounts with dozens of inserts and deletes within a couple minutes in the middle of the same night. Initially I thought it may be related to the Membership Update Utility, which causes lp_customer_rank to fire, but we haven't changed our schedule or parameters so I don't know what would have caused the sudden uptick. Has anybody else experienced something similar?
The only apparent issue so far is that it's more challenging to find useful information on somebody's audit tab when one has to scroll through hundreds of t_cust_rank rows, especially considering that we're not currently using the ranking functionality, (though we may start.)
Related question: I assume it would not be a best practice to modify the triggers on t_cust_rank. Is it safe to periodically delete the t_cust_rank rows from the audit table?
Thanks for the input, everybody. We'll probably tweak the procedure and dump the old audit rows.
For what it's worth, looking at it in a little more detail I suspect that the increase coincided with our upgrade from 11 to 12.1. In exploring this issue I made a minor edit to a plan on one account and it looks like the ranking procedure got called three times as a result--there are six new audit rows resulting from that one edit!