Re: Application Design: Where to implement historical revisions of objects

["Colin Ross" <colinross(at)gmail(dot)com>]

But in the one-table holds all system, the Model Object need to know about
it.
 i.e. "Select top 1 from data where serialnumber = 3821 order by revision
desc"
And off hand, it would make retrieving a whole data set of say- all the
current data involve a subquery to find the most recent data revision for
each serialnumber.

I don't at all mean to discount the system, but I have yet to find a good
pattern for dealing with multiple variants of the same datarow/set.

Colin

On 5/25/07, Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle(at)freenet(dot)de> wrote:
> Hello Colin,
>
> Am 2007-05-23 13:10:42, schrieb Colin Ross:
> > In Practice:
> > An application has a model class of "PageContent" which represents the
> > content that is shown on a certain page. Users of the system are
> > authenticated, then able to edit the content. From an application design
> > point
> > of view, where should the logic and underlying system be for the
> management
> > of historical revisions.
>
> I have something similar, exactly, a Database of military data and data
> sets are never modified but added.
>
> So, I give each dataset a serialnumber and a revision 0. Then if the
> dataset was modified I change the revision to a higher number and add
> the whole dataset into a new row.
>
> This thing is done using trigers.
>
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