1)Only appropriate privileged user can do delete operation on SYS.AUD$ table. The user must have either of the following privileges. -SYS user. -DELETE ANY TABLE system privilege. (If O7_DICTIONARY_ACCESSIBILITY=TRUE) -A user to whom SYS has granted the object privilege DELETE on SYS.AUD$ table.
2)Before deleting any rows you may want to archive the table. You can achive this by creating a table from SYS.AUD$ and export that. Don"t export SYS.AUD$ directly. SQL>CREATE TABLE AUDIT_RECORD TABLESPACE users as select * from SYS.AUD$; Now export the table as, SQL> host exp tables=AUDIT_RECORD file=audit_record.dmp
3)To delete all records from audit trail table SYS.AUD$ issue, SQL>DELETE FROM SYS.AUD$;
To delete all records of particular audited table from the audit trail issue, SQL>DELETE FROM sys.aud$ WHERE obj$name="&table_nmae";
But deleting in this way will not reduce size on the system tablespace or aud$ table. In order to reduce size follow section 4.