Transaction History File

2005-06-15 Thread Andy
I am thinking about creating a transaction history for auditing, repairing and undoing. I am thinking about using XML since this would be easy to create and would adjust naturally to the addition of new attributes. However, this would make the file sizes larger. What are everyone's thoughts

Re: Transaction History File

2005-06-15 Thread Keith Gaughan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andy wrote: I am thinking about creating a transaction history for auditing, repairing and undoing. I am thinking about using XML since this would be easy to create and would adjust naturally to the addition of new attributes. However, this

Re: Transaction History File

2005-06-15 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Andy wrote: I am thinking about creating a transaction history for auditing, repairing and undoing. I am thinking about using XML since this would be easy to create and would adjust naturally to the addition of new attributes. However, this would make the file sizes larger. What are

RE: Transaction History File

2005-06-15 Thread Andy
-Original Message- From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 8:11 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Transaction History File Andy wrote: I am thinking about creating a transaction history for auditing, repairing and undoing. I am thinking about using XML since

RE: Transaction History File

2005-06-15 Thread Andy
-Original Message- From: Keith Gaughan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 7:49 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Transaction History File -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andy wrote: I am thinking about creating a transaction history for auditing

Re: Transaction History File

2005-06-15 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
Andy wrote: I am thinking about creating a transaction history for auditing, repairing and undoing. I am thinking about using XML since this would be easy to create and would adjust naturally to the addition of new attributes. However, this would make the file sizes larger. What are

Re: Transaction History File

2005-06-15 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
2. Keeping it in XML format Not so good. My objection here is that appending to the log would be prohibitively expensive. If you're doing logging, the format of your file needs to be something you can append to without needing to do any messing with the rest of the file. Because XML

RE: Transaction History File

2005-06-15 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
Keith, My thought was something of a highbred, with the entire XML on one line. Basically CFWDDX the structure containing the object and CFILE to the log. I might add some header to the start of the line before saving, such as object name and date. What do you think about this approach?

RE: Transaction History File

2005-06-15 Thread Andy
Actually, the problem is that in the shared environment I am in, I can't count on the transaction logs. So I need to wrap my own. Andy -Original Message- From: S. Isaac Dealey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 9:23 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Transaction History

Re: Transaction History File

2005-06-15 Thread Jochem van Dieten
S.Isaac Dealey wrote: Files: use the snapshot capabilities from your OS/FS For an application that might be deployed on any given OS/FS? Which OS/FS on which CFMX is supported does not have snapshot capabilities? Database: use the native tools from your database For an application

RE: Transaction History File

2005-06-15 Thread Andy
Jochem, I need to read up on MS SQL Transaction logs and discuss options with my host. Should I also read-up on snapshots? Outside of UML, I don't know what they are. Andy Files: use the snapshot capabilities from your OS/FS For an application that might be deployed on any given OS/FS?

Re: Transaction History File

2005-06-15 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Andy wrote: I need to read up on MS SQL Transaction logs and discuss options with my host. Should I also read-up on snapshots? Outside of UML, I don't know what they are. Snapshots is just for files, not for databases. Jochem

Re: Transaction History File

2005-06-15 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
S.Isaac Dealey wrote: Files: use the snapshot capabilities from your OS/FS For an application that might be deployed on any given OS/FS? Which OS/FS on which CFMX is supported does not have snapshot capabilities? Don't they vary from one OS to the next? ... Granted, Andy's probably only

RE: Transaction History File

2005-06-15 Thread Andy
Which OS/FS on which CFMX is supported does not have snapshot capabilities? Don't they vary from one OS to the next? ... Granted, Andy's probably only looking to make this work for the one application (os/database/platform), YUP. NOT TRYING TO MAKE IT COMPLICATED OR PORTABLE. THAT SAID,

Re: Transaction History File

2005-06-15 Thread Jochem van Dieten
S.Isaac Dealey wrote: S.Isaac Dealey wrote: Files: use the snapshot capabilities from your OS/FS For an application that might be deployed on any given OS/FS? Which OS/FS on which CFMX is supported does not have snapshot capabilities? Don't they vary from one OS to the next? ...