[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: RE: GDPR: Trace read access of DB tables

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Auditing does not support FIND events. You can create user defined audit events but those are only as good as the code that fires them (and they won't do you any good if the code is bypassed by an ad-hoc query). You could define FIND triggers but: 1) If the data is frequently accessed you will be imposing a very significant performance penalty. Users are likely to hunt you down and give you "feedback". (This is why auditing does not support FIND. The performance impact would be *huge*.) 2) There are many ways that FIND triggers might not catch everything. For instance, triggers can be disabled in code. And whatever audit trail they might create could possibly be tampered with.

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