RE: Undo Delete

2000-12-20 Thread DeVoil, Nick
- From: Sean Renet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 4:34 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Undo Delete So I have a dba question. What is the difference between using a view instead of a stored procedure. Now I am well aware that you cannot make views as complex as sp's. I am

RE: Undo Delete

2000-12-20 Thread Dave Watts
So I have a dba question. What is the difference between using a view instead of a stored procedure. Now I am well aware that you cannot make views as complex as sp's. I am actually wondering what the performance or otherwise difference between making a stored procedure which is

RE: Undo Delete

2000-12-19 Thread Dave Watts
Here's another use for flagging records: Our db tables which contain scientific data contain an "approved" field, whose default value is "false". After data is inserted into the database, an analyst checks it out, and then we toggle the flag to "true". Of course, our non-admin

RE: Undo Delete

2000-12-18 Thread Michael Thomas
Views??? From: Dave Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Undo Delete Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 22:58:36 -0500 I'm thinking of changing my typical "Delete" button so that it doesn't actually delete a record, but ra

RE: Undo Delete

2000-12-18 Thread Philip Arnold - ASP
David you must have missed my post. a href="action.cfm" onclick="return confirm('Are you sure you want to delete the record? If so click OK, otherwise Cancel.')Delete/a We have a problem with this approach - quite a lot of the users on our sites are behind firewalls which restrict the use of

RE: Undo Delete

2000-12-17 Thread Warrick, Mark
Sounds like a good idea to me. Go for it! -- Mark Warrick Phone: (714) 547-5386 Efax.com Fax: (801) 730-7289 Personal Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal URL: http://www.warrick.net Business Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Business URL:

Re: Undo Delete

2000-12-17 Thread Todd Ashworth
Sounds like a good idea to me as well. On our two largest projects, we don't let users permanently delete anything .. ever. We just flag the data that they 'delete' to not show up any more. Inevitably, someone always deletes something that they want back. Well, we can certainly get their data

Re: Undo Delete

2000-12-17 Thread Michael She
And, if the user IS concerned with drive space, you can date stamp the delete, thus run a batch clean up once a month to remove entries that are a year or older : ) At 03:16 PM 12/17/00 -0500, Todd Ashworth you wrote: Sounds like a good idea to me as well. On our two largest projects, we

RE: Undo Delete

2000-12-17 Thread Dave Watts
I'm thinking of changing my typical "Delete" button so that it doesn't actually delete a record, but rather flags it as a record to be ignored. I'd also record the date/time that it was flagged. That way I can offer the user the opportunity to Undo the Delete. I'll probably schedule a

Re: Undo Delete

2000-12-17 Thread David Shadovitz
Thanks for all of the replies to my "Undo Delete" post. Here's a summary (some items contradict others). Of course, further comments are welcome. * Do a "soft" rather than a "hard" delete. That is, flag the data as unavailable but leave it in the database. * Timestamp the soft deletion. *

Re: Undo Delete

2000-12-17 Thread Jon Hall
uot; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 12:17 AM Subject: Re: Undo Delete Thanks for all of the replies to my "Undo Delete" post. Here's a summary (some items contradict others). Of course, further comments are welcome. * Do a "soft" rather than a "har