Database triggers. If you have spent any length of time within the Oracle development circle you might have noticed something strange: pretty much every expert – commentator, blogger, Oracle evangelist – has written an article condemning triggers. And every single time the comment section is flooded with developers/DBAs defending them. I recently joined the fray, writing an article warning against… Read more
Even where Source Control isn't being used by developers, it is still possible to automate the process of tracking the changes being made to a database and put those into Source Control, in order to track what changed and when. You can even get an email alert when it happens. With suitable scripting, you can even do it if you don't have direct access to the live database. Grant shows how easy this is with SQL Compare.… Read more
In systems that require, for auditing purposes, advanced logging and reproducibility of reports between runs, a straightforward update, insert, or delete may be counter-productive. In such circumstances, a bitemporal model is necessary. Adam Machanic explains how it works.… Read more
