Thanks Hilmar, the artical is what I am looking for. I remember seeing it somewhere, but just couldnt remember where. Guess Im just getting old.

Ron


>>I am looking to create a change table for my program so that when data is changed I can capture who, what and when the data was changed. Is there somewhere I can look to get ideas on how something like this is done. A couple of ideas come to mind, a single seperate table that will store table name, field name, old value, datetime change was made and who made it, but I can see this table growing very large in a busy environment. The other way is to create a change table for every active table in the database to store about the same info, but that would make a large number of tables if the database has a large number of active tables.
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>>What is the best way and is there a demo that I may look at for other ideas?
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>>Thanks
>>Ron Olds
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>I wrote an introductory article about audit trail (which means precisely, record who did what changes, and when), in http://www.utmag.com/May2003/Page18.asp. It includes sample code, which you can adapt to fit your needs.
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>HTH,
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>Hilmar.