Date Track fields - changes

I have a question regarding the date tracked fields in HRMS.
If I want to know what changes are made for a person record, How do I know that?
The changes may be anything like position, salary, job, grade, marital status.
How can I know the old value and the new value after the change?

if you are modifying any assignment record an additional record will be created in the table per_all_assignments_f for the same assignment id.
Example if the assignment is updated 3 times you can see 3 records created for the same assignment
Thanks
Regards
Ramesh Kumar S

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Edited by: user122479 on Jan 26, 2013 10:43 PM

Hi Vigneswar,
Thanks for reponse.
The view PER_ASSIGNMENT_HISTORY_VIEW shows data changes in columns, it is similiar with HRFV_PERSON_ASSIGNMENT_HISTORY view. However It does not show us which columns were changed like in "Date track history change field summary" window. I don't have access to Unix server, so that I can't do the trace stuff.
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Hieu
Edited by: user122479 on Jan 29, 2013 10:50 AM

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