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>>You might look into Adding a CRC32-field "verifying" the point that the record was updated via your app / bizlogic.
>>As a side benefit, checking on read you get a flag that something was done to your data right in your app.
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>>OTOH if "trust" is that important, it is a hint to switch to a SQL backend ;-)
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>>regards
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>>thomas
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>Thank you for the suggestion. As I mentioned in my message to Kevin, right now my priority is to get the audit log as simple as possible and getting to SQL backend as soon as possible :)

Understood and on the priciple of KISS full ACK. But implementing such 1 or 2 "fingerprint" fields in a base class is still much less work than an audit trail.