On several occasions I have thought that each row in a table should have a
SYSTEM COLUMN which gave the timestamp of the last update of that row. This
could get a bit expensive on space and in some cases might be redundant with
(or have a slightly different value from) a user-maintained timestamp field.
I have also thought that each table should have values for:
Last DDL
Last Insert
Last Update
Last Delete
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Mike Nolan