Yep, going with Ron's suggestions, you could do:

CREATED
LAST_UPDATED

But, as Jobin mentioned, would LAST_UPDATED be construed as last time
data in the table changed or last time the DDL or the table changed?

-jay

p.s. UUID or ID is also fine with me...

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Brian Aker <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Unless Jay you disagree with Ronald, I am going to go with his suggestion.
>
> BTW one other field I want to add is UUID. Basically I want to have this
> around to have an identifier with each object that I can be 100% sure when
> doing comparisons that I am dealing with the same thing.
>
> Any thoughts on that?
>
> Cheers,
>        -Brian
>
> On Mar 17, 2010, at 9:55 AM, Ronald Bradford wrote:
>
>> Not sure of the tables in question, but the use of type identifier in
>> names is kinda old.
>> Drizzle is about all things new and shiny.
>>
>> Could I recommend from a architect position,   "created" and
>> "last_updated" are self describing.
>>
>> Ronald
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:32 AM, Jay Pipes <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi, Brian!
>>
>> I really like what you're doing with the latest DDL things by adding a
>> create and update timestamp to tables in the data dictionary!
>>
>> My quick suggestion is to make the fields a little more grammatically
>> consistent.  Currently, you have the fields as creation_timestamp and
>> update_timestamp.  I'd recommend either going with one or the other of
>> the following:
>>
>> created_timestamp
>> updated_timestamp
>>
>> -or-
>>
>> create_timestamp
>> update_timestamp
>>
>> Just for consistency's sake. :)
>>
>> Other than that, really jazzed about the new DDL changes... woot.
>>
>> -jay
>>
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