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Registering updates of records
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18/10/2001 11:36:14
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00570245
Message ID:
00570294
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19
>My customer want to register updates of records in one of VFP table. He assumes to append fields with user name and date/time of last update to that table. My questions:
>1. Is it possible to protect these fields from modification outside of program?
>2. How can I get current time from file server (or another computer on network)?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Alex

1. You can conceivably do some protection with triggers. However, this would be complicated, and the safety level would not be great. If you need data safety, you should consider Client/Server, IMHO.

Hilmar.
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