Mike yearwood <> wrote:
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>>>> But what about the legitimate changes made AFTER his mistake?
>>>> Wouldn't this approach not have those changes because of "stopping
>>>> short" of them?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Who dowes dev work on PROD databases?
>>>
>>>
>> I didn't see him say it was dev work....but obviously you want to be
>> extra careful on production databases! ;-)
>>
>> --
>
> I've always wondered why this idea is not a standard:
>
> Don't let apps delete records. Mark records for deletion with a
> datetime and delete them after some time period. That's almost what
> the delete flag does in VFP.
>
> To err is human - to have an ability to un-"delete" is therefore
> important.
I add a status column as a standard in all of my tables. It will define to
be deleted as well as never to be deleted. ;->
Now in updates I always allow first in and alert the close second that
someone beat them. My update has the where clause
Where key = KeyValue and UpdateDT = LastUpdateValue
Stephen Russell
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