Re: History functionality

From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 23:14:30 -0800
Message-ID: <1078902839.82916_at_yasure>


[Quoted] Harald Maier wrote:

> Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> writes:
>
>

>>Philipp Gath wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi,

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>
>>>i'm currently working on a little Database project for my
>>>diploma. Now i need to have a history funtionality for a few of my
>>>tables. This must include the old values, time and date of change
>>>and user who changed the value.  Has anyone an idea how to realize
>>>such a functionality in an "as intelligent as possible" way? Or
>>>maybe a good tip for literatur regarding this problem?  Thanks in
>>>advance.
>>
>>In addition to triggers look at the LT package, usually accessed
>>using the DBMS_WM synonym.

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> Hello Daniel,
>
> what does the abbreviation LT mean?
>
> Harald

[Quoted] It means the development team used the initials LT and that later on there was so much code referring to it no one wanted to change it to something more meaningful.

Likely no one but the developers and a handful of people in Redwood Shores know.

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