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Re: Trigger question

On 21/03/06, Lapeyre, Francis <FLAPEYRE@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Which was what I meant, since not all (or even most) programs around here
> check to see that the record was changed before doing an UPDATE. Since our
> files have a "last changed" date and time, we are now forced to compare the
> record to the previous one and only change the timestamp and issue an update
> if the before and after images differ. I don't use the trigger itself to do
> that; the only thing the trigger does is add records to an audit file.

Does using a trigger that way buy you anything over simply journalling
the file? A journal seems to me to be the cheapest and most reliable
way of providing an audit trail of file changes.

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Dave...

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