[AccessD] Audit Trails

Agreed, This is exactly what I have been thinking all this thread.  We use triggers a lot for tracking changes (who, when, what etc) and they are great.

regards
Darryl.


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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Drew Wutka
Sent: Monday, 20 July 2009 6:10 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Audit Trails

I almost hate to suggest this Rocky, but if the audit trail is so important, why not look at a different backend.  SQL Server Express will let you use triggers, you setup a trigger for INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE for each table you want to audit.  Then you don't have to worry about what process is doing what, the database does the audit automatically.....

Like I said, this pushes the backend away from Access, but auditing is one feature of a server side database that is just makes more sense to do that there....

Drew

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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin
Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2009 7:50 AM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Audit Trails

Gustav:

Storage space won't be an issue.  However, this implies an audit table for
each table with userID and timestamp, yes?  It would seem the reporting
would be a little more tricky because you'd have to go back to the previous
audit trail record for a table to find the differences, no?

Rocky


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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Max Wanadoo
Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2009 12:34 AM
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] Audit Trails

When you consider that last week I bought 1.5Tb HD for £110 sterling from PC
World. Plugs straight into my usb port and comes up as 1.3Tb formatted.

I can make copies to my hearts content and never run out of space.

Max
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