RE: Monitoring for Database Updates.

How did you initiate your small logging program

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From: Pat Barber [mailto:MBOCEANSIDE@postoffice.worldnet.att.net]
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 10:09 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Monitoring for Database Updates.


Colin Williams wrote:
> 
> Is there any way to monitor for changes to a file, without using
> journalling or triggers.

Prior to "trigger" days, I always wrote a small "logging" program
that would kick in anytime the update occurred....Took a "snap shot"
of entire record coming in, and then compared record at update time...
I would write out the "before" & "after" record to my log file...

This was used mostly for debugging, but it would work for any other
situation...
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