Re: Data auditing: triggers vs application code

On 9/21/05, Sandeep Dubey <dubey.sandeep@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 1. Create triggers on the live table. For each insert/update/delete insert a
> row in the audit table.

Strange and unexpected things can happen with audit triggers.
They can fire 2+ times for the same row in the right circumstances.

See:
http://tkyte.blogspot.com/2005/08/something-different-part-i-of-iii.html
http://tkyte.blogspot.com/2005/08/part-ii-seeing-restart.html
http://tkyte.blogspot.com/2005/09/part-iii-why-is-restart-important-to.html


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