Fwd: Audit Table storage for Primary Key(s)

Any advice anyone ? -- Forwarded message -- From: Neil Tompkins neil.tompk...@googlemail.com Date: Thu, May 30, 2013 at 8:27 AM Subject: Audit Table storage for Primary Key(s) To: [MySQL] mysql@lists.mysql.com Hi, I've created a Audit table which tracks any changed fields for

Re: Audit Table storage for Primary Key(s)

On 30-05-2013 09:27, Neil Tompkins wrote: Hi, I've created a Audit table which tracks any changed fields for multiple tables. In my Audit table I'm using a UUID for the primary key. However I need to have a reference back to the primary key(s) of the table audited. At the moment I've a

Re: Audit Table storage for Primary Key(s)

Thanks for your response. We expect to use the Audit log when looking into exceptions and/or any need to debug table updates. I don't think a CSV table would be sufficient as we are wanting to use a interface to query this data at least on a daily basis if not weekly. I use UUID because we have

Re: Audit Table storage for Primary Key(s)

Again: Unless you can give some idea as to the kind of lookups you will be performing (which fields? Temporal values? etc.), it is impossible to give advice on the table structure. I wouldn't blame anyone for not being able to do so; saving data for debugging will always be a moving target and

Re: Audit Table storage for Primary Key(s)

The kind of look ups will be trying to diagnose when and by who applied a update. So the primary key of the audit is important. My question is for performance, should the primary key be stored as a indexed field like I mentioned before, or should I have a actual individual field per primary key

Re: Audit Table storage for Primary Key(s)

Based on the little information available, I would make a lookup field consisting of tablename and primary keys. (although I still believe that storing this information in the database in the first place is probably the wrong approach, but to each his own) / Carsten On 31-05-2013 12:58,

Re: Audit Table storage for Primary Key(s)

There's been a thirst for this kind of thing for sometime but possibly you're looking for a cheaper option? Since 5.5 there's some incarnation of an audit plugin which can be extended for your own needs which should allow you to perform some persistence of the results with either a log file which

RE: Audit Table storage for Primary Key(s)

UUID PRIMARY KEY (or even secondary index) -- Once the table gets big enough (bigger than RAM cache), each row INSERTed (or SELECTed) will be a disk hit. (Rule of Thumb: only 100 hits/sec.) This is because _random_ keys (like UUID) make caching useless. Actually, the slowdown will be

RE: Audit Table storage for Primary Key(s)

I'll ask the dumb question. Why not create individual history tables corresponding to your 'main' tables? So, if you have an 'address' table, then the original record could be written to an 'address_his' table via an update or delete trigger (depending on whether you allow deletions or not) when

Re: Audit Table storage for Primary Key(s)

Ah-ha, excuse my earlier response, I was under the impression you were trying to track schema changes etc. A On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Rick James rja...@yahoo-inc.com wrote: UUID PRIMARY KEY (or even secondary index) -- Once the table gets big enough (bigger than RAM cache), each row

RE: Are There Slow Queries that Don't Show in the Slow Query Logs?

-Original Message- From: Vikas Shukla [mailto:myfriendvi...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 7:19 PM To: Robinson, Eric; mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: RE: Are There Slow Queries that Don't Show in the Slow Query Logs? Hi, No, it does not represents the time from