If available in the data management tool you use to view the log file, you can focus your viewing by filtering entries—by audit level (view only debug-level or info-level entries), by time (view entries within the past hour), by operation success / failure (show error entries only), and so on.
The following SQL statement shows an Oracle and IBM DB2 example:
SELECT ROWID_AUDIT, FROM_SYSTEM, TO_SYSTEM, USERNAME, COMPONENT, ACTION, STATUS, TABLE_NAME, ROWID_OBJECT, ROWID_AUDIT_PREVIOUS, DATA_XML,
CREATE_DATE FROM C_REPOS_AUDIT
WHERE CREATE_DATE >= TO_DATE('07/06/2006 12:23:00', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS')
ORDER BY CREATE_DATE
The following SQL statement shows a Microsoft SQL Server example:
SELECT ROWID_AUDIT, FROM_SYSTEM, TO_SYSTEM, USERNAME, COMPONENT, ACTION, STATUS, TABLE_NAME,
ROWID_OBJECT, ROWID_AUDIT_PREVIOUS, DATA_XML,
CREATE_DATE FROM C_REPOS_AUDIT
WHERE CREATE_DATE >= CAST('01-JAN-2012' AS DATETIME)
ORDER BY CREATE_DATE