Posted by David Cressey on 06/26/07 01:28

<nyathancha@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> One good point everyone seems to raise is "what is it used for?" ...
> To be perfectly honest I am not entirely sure myself. Its one of those
> requirements that filtered down from the management cloud. I think
> the view is to use it mainly for "reporting" kind of functionality and
> maybe only on some rare occasion for some sort of postmortem
> debugging. Although in the latter situation, the application logs and
> the sql server logs will probably end up being more helpful. I think
> there is a system table somewhere in sql server that logs all the
> transactions and changes that happen in the table right?
>

In architecture, form follows function. If the question "what is this data
being captured for" is unanswered, then the question of whether the design
is appropriate becomes moot.

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