might be a stupid question, but could it be a search engine that's trawling
the site and just going to the page

www.mysite.com/deletestaff.cfm?id=20 ???

Maybe add this file to the robot.txt file so it is not trawled, and make it
a form rather than a url variable.

http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots.html




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Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 12:38 PM
Subject: [cfaussie] RE: tracking down unusual record deletions


> The query statements are:
>
> <CFQUERY DATASOURCE="Libmag">
> UPDATE tblMeetings
> SET Active = no
> WHERE tblMeetings.Meet_ID=#URL.id#
> </CFQUERY>
>
> The URL.id comes from the previous page = its a basic display
> a list and select a single item to edit or delete. Thats why its hard
> to think why 20+ records would be deleted this way.
>
> I am trying to track down the server logs to see if there is
> any file activity that will point me in the right direction. Thanks
> for tips!
>
> regards
> susan
>
>
> At 12:23 PM 26/02/2004, you wrote:
> >How exactly is the delete occurring? Did you change a cfquery DELETE to a
> >cfquery UPDATE? If so then clearly this query is being run, right? What
does
> >the WHERE clause look like?
> >
> > > Its possible from within the web pages for staff to delete records
from
> > > these
> > > 2 tables, so I changed this function from being a real delete to
marking
> > > the records inactive. When I did this, the problem changed from the
> > > records being deleted to being marked inactive.
> >
> >
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