>>Hi,
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>>I was wondering what others here think about storing changes to every record into some kind of audit trail table? Is this a good and reasonable design or waste of database storage?
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>>TIA.
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>Hi Dmitry.
>
>As others have mentioned, it depends on your requirements. But with an audittrail, you have powerfull means to:
>1. To see who did change what record at what time
>2. Undo a change
>3. Travel back in time and recontruct the data at some point in time
>
>Walter,
I agree with your points, Walter. And this, I believe, makes the increase in database size worthwhile.
Thank you.
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