Re: Database modelling question for version management

On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 04:05, Gianni Mariani wrote:
> I'm sure this problem has been solved by someone.
>
> I am designing a retail product database and I need to "version control"
> the contents of the database.  The requirements include rollback,
> branching, merging etc.
>
> I can think of some fairly expensive techniques to manage the data but I
> was wondering if someone has some insights into some optimizations.

triggers and history tables?

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