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Make all tables in database read only?
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12/05/2012 11:45:41
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Visual FoxPro
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Other
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Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
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Thread ID:
01543468
Message ID:
01543513
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>>>You might add another security layer by checking with the DBC-Events that the tables are really read-only.
>>>Again, easily overcome - not existant if not opened via VFP or VFP-ODBC/OLEDB driver.
>>>You might just show a big warning screen in the event if the dbf is not read-only
>>>[and add a email to you with a log of when this happened, under which login]
>>>But if someone just uses a Hex-Editor this wont get triggered.
>>
>>The tables do belong to a database (that is housed with DBC). I am not concerned if a table is being accessed by Hex-Editor or any other way outside of my (VFP) application. I am only concerned that somewhere I didn't leave out code in my application that by accident still opens VFP table(s) instead of getting the data from SQL Server.
>
>For that the dbc-events sound tailor-made...
>Log the alias and the stack, show a big screen and have the logs forwarded.
>
>regards
>
>thomas

I will have to lookup how to do dbc-events; never done that. Thank you for the suggestions.
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