True, but I felt putting an employee in charge of maintaining logs with no oversight was asking for trouble long before Sarbanes-Oxley came along.
Paul H. Tarver -----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Charlie-gm Sent: Monday, April 22, 2019 4:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: How best to do an audit trail of changes (EASILY WITHOUT THE NEED FOR A DBA) FYI, if the logs in question belong to a "financial system" (a true accounting application), then changing those logs is against the law - as far as Sarbanes-Oxley is concerned. -Charlie On 4/22/2019 5:37 PM, Paul H. Tarver wrote: > Seems like the reversal would be a logged event as well. > > I've always thought direct edits to any log by a user or even an admin corrupts the integrity of the log and invites unlogged edits to be made. Asking for trouble depending on the critical nature of the data changed. > > Paul H. Tarver > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ProfoxTech [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Frank Cazabon > Sent: Monday, April 22, 2019 4:21 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: How best to do an audit trail of changes (EASILY WITHOUT THE NEED FOR A DBA) > > If your clients are anything like my clients, make sure you allow them access to change the historical dates after they've changed the price. Someone is bound to change the price at the wrong time and need to go back in and adjust it. > > > > On 22 April 2019 15:33:48 GMT-04:00, "MB Software Solutions, LLC" <[email protected]> wrote: >> VFP9SP2 app, MariaDB 10 (MySQL) backend. >> >> One of my clients asked about a history of price changes. Easy enough >> to implement programmatically for the few price fields, but then I got >> to wondering if simply putting code in the ON UPDATE trigger to send >> the >> old record to a "history" table would be a more complete (and long term >> >> EASIER) solution, whereby my app would query the "history" table for >> changes. >> >> Your thoughts for tracking price (or other) changes? >> >> tia, >> --Mike >> >> >> >> --- >> This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. >> https://www.avast.com/antivirus >> >> [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
