Hi All,

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 7:58 PM, Roy Lyseng <[email protected]> wrote:
> Do as we did once: Use UPDATED for data and MODIFIED for metadata.

why "MODIFIED" and not "ALTERED" ? the other identifiers seem to
follow the SQL verb, except this one....

>
> Just make it consistently throughout.
>
> Likewise, we used INSERTED for data and CREATED for metadata.
>
> Thanks,
> Roy
>>
>> -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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