Understanding the audit tables

The system audit tables can be accessed only by a System Security Officer, who can read the tables by executing SQL commands. The only commands that are allowed on the system audit tables are select and truncate.

Table 12-4 describes the columns in all audit tables.

**Table 12-4: Columns in each audit table**
Column name	Datatype	Description
event	smallint	Type of event being audited. See Table 12-6.
eventmod	smallint	More information about the event being audited. Indicates whether or not the event in question passed permission checks. Possible values are: 0 = no modifier for this event 1 = the event passed permission checking 2 = the event failed permission checking
spid	smallint	ID of the process that caused the audit record to be written.
eventtime	datetime	Date and time that the audited event occurred.
sequence	smallint	Sequence number of the record within a single event. Some events require more than one audit record.
suid	smallint	Server login ID of the user who performed the audited event.
dbid	int null	Database ID in which the audited event occurred, or in which the object, stored procedure, or trigger resides, depending on the type of event.
objid	int null	ID of the accessed object, stored procedure, or trigger.
xactid	binary(6) null	ID of the transaction containing the audited event. For a multi-database transaction, this is the transaction ID from the database where the transaction originated.
loginname	varchar(30) null	Login name corresponding to the suid.
dbname	varchar(30) null	Database name corresponding to the dbid.
objname	varchar(30) null	Object name corresponding to the objid.
objowner	varchar(30) null	Name of the owner of objid.
extrainfo	varchar(255) null	Additional information about the audited event. This column contains a sequence of items separated by semicolons. For details, see “Reading the extrainfo column”.