Home Forums Article Discussions Article Discussions by Author Discuss Content Posted by David Ziffer Creating a generic audit trigger with SQL 2005 CLR RE: Creating a generic audit trigger with SQL 2005 CLR

  • October 21, 2012 at 7:34 pm

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    David Ziffer (10/21/2012)

    Sorry if this is a multiple post, but I tried responding once and it didn't post. I never did follow up further on this single-audit-table approach to auditing, since it is of somewhat limited use (reconstructing data using this mechanism would be pretty complex). I did write another article series on this site, however, entitled "Writing Nearly Codeless Apps", which discusses a much more practical and comprehensive auditing mechnism that allows you to easily recall every row of every table of an application as of a given date.

    Nice, short and sweet artcle. However, between the more than doubling the size of the database just for the inserts and saving a full row even if only one column got updated, I have to say that you must have a huge amount of disk space available. Backups and restores will suffer, as well.

    --Jeff Moden

    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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