https://appcoding.com/tags/audit-trails/ Recent content in Audit Trails on App Coding Hugo en-us Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://appcoding.com/store-changes-instead-of-current-rows-an-embedded-database-built-around-history/ Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://appcoding.com/store-changes-instead-of-current-rows-an-embedded-database-built-around-history/ <p>A support ticket asks two plain questions: which plan was customer 4411 on when the August invoice went out, and who moved them off it? The <code>customers</code> table can&rsquo;t answer either. It holds today&rsquo;s row. The audit table someone added two years ago holds most of the story, apart from the week a data fix ran a bulk <code>UPDATE</code> in raw SQL and skipped the ORM callbacks that write the audit rows.</p>