HFM TASK AUDIT TABLE

We are using HFM system 9 and we notice that the size of the task audit table has exceeded the normal limits,we would like to take a backup of data before deleting the records.Is this possible?
is the deletion of records recommeneded or truncation of the table.How do we take a backup of the table,can we make HFM web retrieve from this table when needed?
Does anyone know how to convert the float type(starttime,endtime) to date datatype?
Thanks in advance

Here is the query I use against the task audit table to get my users by day.. Our DBA came up with the code to convert the starttime field using CASt(convert(VARCHAR
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT ActivityUserID) as NumUsers
, CAST(convert(VARCHAR,CAST(starttime AS DATETIME),106) AS DATETIME) AS [DAY]
FROM dbo.LAUREATE_TASK_AUDIT
WHERE CAST(convert(VARCHAR,CAST(starttime AS DATETIME),106) AS DATETIME) >= '8/1/2009'
GROUP BY CAST(convert(VARCHAR,CAST(starttime AS DATETIME),106) AS DATETIME)
ORDER BY CAST(convert(VARCHAR,CAST(starttime AS DATETIME),106) AS DATETIME)
What I noticed with our database (SQL 2000 SP4, HFM 9.2.1) is that the date conversion is off by 2 days. So user activity for today shows as 2 days in the future when I query the table. I logged this with Oracle but no resolution. For what I need, it works fine.
We have made a backup of the table in the past and truncated the existing table. Your SQL DBA can do that easily.Then yes you can just query either table as needed.

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Greg,
Logs are stored in the HFM relational database. The table name is <AppName>TaskAudit where <AppName> is the name of the HFM app.
By default, the data in this table is not trimmed and it can grow quite large.
From an overall systems level, I doubt the size of this table is going to negatively impact system performance unless you are trying to work with that table directly. ;)
It is not uncommon for people to make a script (schedule task) that executes a sql query that cleans up the table except for critical pieces of information such as system loads, etc.
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Activity Codes
ActivityID     ActivityName
0     Idle
1     Rules Load
2     Rules Scan
3     Rules Extract
4     Consolidation
5     Chart Logic
6     Translation
7     Custom Logic
8     Allocate
9     Data Load
10     Data Extract
11     Data Extract via HAL
12     Data Entry
13     Data Retrieval
14     Data Clear
15     Data Copy
16     Journal Entry
17     Journal Retrieval
18     Journal Posting
19     Journal Unposting
20     Journal Template Entry
21     Metadata Load
22     Metadata Extract
23     Member List Load
24     Member List Scan
25     Member List Extract
26     Security Load
27     Security Scan
28     Security Extract
29     Logon
30     Logon Failure
31     Logoff
32     External
33     Metadata Scan
34     Data Scan
35     Extended Analytics Export
36     Extended Analytics Schema Delete
37     Transactions Load
38     Transactions Extract
39     Document Attachments
40     Document Detachments
41     Create Transactions
42     Edit Transactions
43     Delete Transactions
44     Post Transactions
45     Unpost Transactions
46     Delete Invalid Records
47     Data Audit Purged
48     Task Audit Purged
49     Post All Transactions
50     Unpost All Transactions
51     Delete All Transactions
52     Unmatch All Transactions
53     Auto Match by ID
54     Auto Match by Account
55     Intercompany Matching Report by ID
56     Intercompany Matching Report by Acct
57     Intercompany Transaction Report
58     Manual Match
59     Unmatch Selected
60     Manage IC Periods
61     Lock/Unlock IC Entities
62     Manage IC Reason Codes
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TASK_AUDIT     Data_Type     Allows_Nulls     Description
AUDITID     int     NOT NULL     Unique row identifier
ACTIVITYUSERID     int     NOT NULL     User ID
ACTIVITYSESSIONID     int     NOT NULL     Session ID
ACTIVITYCODE     Int     NOT NULL     Activity Code
SERVERNAME     NVARCHAR     NOT NULL     Server name
APPNAME     NVARCHAR     NOT NULL     Application Name
STARTTIME     Float     NOT NULL     Task Start Time
ENDTIME     float     NOT NULL     Task End Time
STRDESCRIPTION     NVARCHAR     NULL     Description for Task
STRMODULENAME     NVARCHAR     NULL     HFM Module involved in task

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Hi,
Internal Audit dept has requested a bunch of information, that we need to compile from Task Audit, Data Audit and Process Flow History logs. We do have all the info available, however not in a format that allows proper "reporting" of log information. What is the best way to handle HFM logs so that we can quickly filter and export required audit information?
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I thought I posted this Friday, but I just noticed I never hit the 'Post Message Button', ha ha.
This info below will help you translate some of the information in the tables, etc. You could report on it from the Audit tables directly or move them to another appropriate data table for analysis later. The concensus, though I disagree, is that you will suffer performance issues if your audit tables get too big, so you want to move them periodically. You can do this using a scheduled Task, manual process, etc.
I personally just dump it to another table and report on it from there. As mentioned above, you'll need to translate some of the information as it is not 'human readable' in the database.
For instance, if I wanted to pull Metadata Load, Rules Load, Member List load, you could run a query like this. (NOTE: strAppName should be equal to the name of your application .... )
The main tricks to know at least for task audit table are figuring out how to convert times and determing which activity code corresponds to the user friendly name.
-- Declare working variables --
declare @dtStartDate as nvarchar(20)
declare @dtEndDate as nvarchar(20)
declare @strAppName as nvarchar(20)
declare @strSQL as nvarchar(4000)
-- Initialize working variables --
set @dtStartDate = '1/1/2012'
set @dtEndDate = '8/31/2012'
set @strAppName = 'YourAppNameHere'
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set @strSQL = '
select sUserName as "User", ''Rules Load'' as Activity, cast(StartTime-2 as smalldatetime) as "Time Start",
      cast(EndTime-2 as smalldatetime) as ''Time End'', ServerName, strDescription, strModuleName
   from ' + @strAppName + '_task_audit ta, hsv_activity_users au
   where au.lUserID = ta.ActivityUserID and activitycode in (1)
        and cast(StartTime-2 as smalldatetime) between ''' + @dtStartDate + ''' and ''' + @dtEndDate + '''
union all
select sUserName as "User", ''Metadata Load'' as Activity, cast(StartTime-2 as smalldatetime) as "Time Start",
      cast(EndTime-2 as smalldatetime) as ''Time End'', ServerName, strDescription, strModuleName
   from ' + @strAppName + '_task_audit ta, hsv_activity_users au
   where au.lUserID = ta.ActivityUserID and activitycode in (21)
        and cast(StartTime-2 as smalldatetime) between ''' + @dtStartDate + ''' and ''' + @dtEndDate + '''
union all
select sUserName as "User", ''Memberlist Load'' as Activity, cast(StartTime-2 as smalldatetime) as "Time Start",
      cast(EndTime-2 as smalldatetime) as ''Time End'', ServerName, strDescription, strModuleName
   from ' + @strAppName + '_task_audit ta, hsv_activity_users au
   where au.lUserID = ta.ActivityUserID and activitycode in (23)
        and cast(StartTime-2 as smalldatetime) between ''' + @dtStartDate + ''' and ''' + @dtEndDate + ''''
exec sp_executesql @strSQLIn regards to activity codes, here's a quick breakdown on those ....
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0     Idle
1     Rules Load
2     Rules Scan
3     Rules Extract
4     Consolidation
5     Chart Logic
6     Translation
7     Custom Logic
8     Allocate
9     Data Load
10     Data Extract
11     Data Extract via HAL
12     Data Entry
13     Data Retrieval
14     Data Clear
15     Data Copy
16     Journal Entry
17     Journal Retrieval
18     Journal Posting
19     Journal Unposting
20     Journal Template Entry
21     Metadata Load
22     Metadata Extract
23     Member List Load
24     Member List Scan
25     Member List Extract
26     Security Load
27     Security Scan
28     Security Extract
29     Logon
30     Logon Failure
31     Logoff
32     External
33     Metadata Scan
34     Data Scan
35     Extended Analytics Export
36     Extended Analytics Schema Delete
37     Transactions Load
38     Transactions Extract
39     Document Attachments
40     Document Detachments
41     Create Transactions
42     Edit Transactions
43     Delete Transactions
44     Post Transactions
45     Unpost Transactions
46     Delete Invalid Records
47     Data Audit Purged
48     Task Audit Purged
49     Post All Transactions
50     Unpost All Transactions
51     Delete All Transactions
52     Unmatch All Transactions
53     Auto Match by ID
54     Auto Match by Account
55     Intercompany Matching Report by ID
56     Intercompany Matching Report by Acct
57     Intercompany Transaction Report
58     Manual Match
59     Unmatch Selected
60     Manage IC Periods
61     Lock/Unlock IC Entities
62     Manage IC Reason Codes
63     Null

How to Query the Audit Tables

Our Production system is suffering performance issues which we attribute to the large volume of records in the audit tables. We want to implement an archival solution to alleviate this, which would involve transferring older audit records to a separate database. To achieve this, we need to write SQL queries against the <app>DATAAUDIT and <app>TASKAUDIT tables in the HFM database. We are aware that we need to join other tables to see descriptions, e.g. <app>SCENARIODESC. We have also deduced the translation of Activity Codes from "HFMAuditExtractSchemaDefs.xml", which accompanies the HFM Audit Extract Utility.
Unfortunately, there are some things which we do not know how to translate:
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2) User (ActivityUserId) on the <app>TASKAUDIT table, e.g. -329543984
3) Module (strModuleName) on the <app>TASKAUDIT table, e.g. #@RID@#19
Can anyone advise how we should translate these pieces of data in order to give similar results to those seen on the Data Audit and Task Audit screens in Workspace?

1.) Period - I'm not sure where this is coming from, but I'm pretty confident it is not sitting in the database which I find odd. I want to find this as well, but haven't had any free time to search around, sorry.
2.) User - This one I can help you with.
--Get Task Item Data by Hour for a given day by user
select datepart(HOUR, cast(endtime-2 as smalldatetime)), count(activitycode) from <APP_NAME>_task_audit where activitycode in (1,4,6,8,9,12,14,15,16,21,23,44) and cast(endtime-2 as smalldatetime) between '2011-12-7 00:00:00' and '2011-12-7 23:59:59' and ActivityUserID in (select lUserID from HSV_ACTIVITY_USERS where sUserName = '<USER_NAME>') group by datepart(HOUR, cast(endtime-2 as smalldatetime))In the sample SQL Query above, I am looking for all of the task audit activity (for the specified tasks) for a specific user by hour. The part of the query you want to focus on is
and ActivityUserID in (select lUserID from HSV_ACTIVITY_USERS where sUserName = '<USER_NAME>')The ActivityUserID in the task audit table will match up to the lUserID field in the HSV_ACTIVITY_USERS table. sUserName will be the actual text username. Depending on how you are configured, the name may look like johndoe or johndoe@Native Directory or johndoe@AD, etc. If you query that table, you'll figure it out pretty quickly.
3.) Module ID. I can only partially assist on this one.
This is not also in the HFM database. I suspected it might be floating in workspace; however, can't really find it there either.
I can tell you a couple things though....
#@RID@# Is just a placeholder for Resource ID. The important part is the number behind it. If you do a search on your folders for @RID@, you'll get one hit where it is defined as a constant, but that is it. (I was hoping a file search would reveal a table of the ID's; however, I wasn't that lucky). There is probably a table of values that correspone somewhere, but I haven't found it.
If you do a distinct select, you'll see there's not too many ...
select distinct strmodulename from <APP_NAME>_task_audit#@RID@#10
#@RID@#13
#@RID@#14
#@RID@#16
#@RID@#18
#@RID@#23
#@RID@#30
#@RID@#32
#@RID@#4294967295
#@RID@#45
#@RID@#46
#@RID@#49
#@RID@#52
#@RID@#58
#@RID@#59
#@RID@#65
#@RID@#66
#@RID@#67
#@RID@#68
#@RID@#69
#@RID@#7
#@RID@#9
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How can you determine these values?
The quick and dirty way would be to run a Task Audit Extract for a given date range as this will reveal the Module Name.
Then execute a SQL Query on the Task Audit Table for the same data range. You could then match up the records and deduce the values.
--Get Task Items by Date Range
select (select sUserName from HSV_ACTIVITY_USERS where lUserID = ActivityUserID) as UserName, ActivityCode, ServerName, AppName, cast(StartTime-2 as smalldatetime), cast(EndTime-2 as smalldatetime), strDescription, strModuleName from <APP_NAME>_task_audit where cast(endtime-2 as smalldatetime) between '2011-12-7 00:00:00' and '2011-12-7 23:59:59' order by endtime ascOnce you determine the values, I would create a table in your database to hold them so that you could use them in future queries. I would also recommend you do the same with the activitycodes.

Data Retrieval in task audit

Hello,
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Thanks
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Hi Lilach,
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ActivityID
ActivityName
0
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1
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2
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5
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6
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7
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8
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9
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12
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13
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14
Data Copy
15
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16
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17
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18
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The ADDM report suggests Segment Tuning and Application tuning (Application tuning not possible since it is HFM code.) Looking at a relatively large application, the database improvement would be about 10 minutes if we could minimize the USER I/O waits for this table.
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property not set correctly, parameters not set correctly, or connection not established correctly."
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Can anybody suggest on this??
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Thanks Arthur for the response, i have tried with the Sql_Variant data type also, here procedure itself not creating and throwing below error.
"The data types nvarchar(max) and sql_variant are incompatible in the add operator."
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ALTER PROC [dbo].[usp_AuditErrorHandler]
@AuditTableName nvarchar(MAX)
,@Audit_Status nvarchar(100)
,@Audit_PkgEnd_dttm nvarchar(100)
,@Audit_Task_ErrorCode nvarchar(100)
,@Audit_ErrorDescription SQL_VARIANT
,@errorcode nvarchar(max)
,@task SQL_VARIANT
,@errordescription SQL_VARIANT
,@Audit_ID nvarchar(10)
,@LogID INT
AS
BEGIN
SET NOCOUNT ON;
DECLARE @STRQuery SQL_VARIANT
BEGIN TRY
SET @STRQuery = '
UPDATE '+@AuditTableName+'
SET '+@Audit_Status+' = ''Failed''
,'+@Audit_PkgEnd_dttm+' = GETDATE()
,'+@Audit_Task_ErrorCode+' = '''+@errorcode+'''
,'+@Audit_ErrorDescription+' = ''Task['+ @task +']:'+ @errordescription +'''
(Error is giving in this line)
WHERE ' +@Audit_ID+ ' = ' + CAST(@LogID AS NVARCHAR)
EXEC (@STRQuery)
END TRY
Below is the Audit Table Schema

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An error occurred on the server when processing the URL. Please contact the
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about this error.
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SDM,
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I am working on Oracle 9i database and having nearly 100 tables of 15 columns each on average.
We have two seperate tables for Audit purpose. First table contains only table name which got effected by updates and deletes. Second table contains first table's Id, column name, old value and new value.
If value of one column of a table changes, it would be one record in each audit table. If values of 20 columns are updated then one record in the first table and 20 records in the second table with old and new values.
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