Enabling your database for auditing creates seven new tables in your database meta-schema. The table below briefly describes each of the tables. The details on the fields and indexes of each of these tables are discussed in Learn about Security and Auditing.

Table 1. Auditing meta-schema tables
Table name Description Archived
_aud-audit-data This table contains the audit data records. All events are stored in this table. Yes
_aud-audit-data-value This table is a child table of the _aud-audit-data table, and contains records for each field change data event. Yes
_aud-audit-policy This table contains named audit policies. If multiple policies are active, the aggregation of the policies is applied, and the highest level of auditing will be applied if a conflict exists between policies. No
_aud-event This table contains the definitions for all supported OpenEdge and user-defined audit events and their event ids. All event ids up to 32,000 are reserved. You can create custom application events with ids greater than 32,000. Yes
_aud-event-policy This table contains policy settings for events associated with policies. No
_aud-field-policy This table contains field level auditing settings associated with a named policy. No
_aud-file-policy This table contains table level auditing settings associated with a named policy. No