Chapter 18. Tracking Changes
This chapter will examine how we can use the change-tracking mechanism, in order to record structure and data changes done from the phpMyAdmin interface and to obtain reports about such changes.
Understanding the goals of the tracking system
Each software application has its own idea of what changes are important to track for its users. This section describes tracking systems that exist in other applications, and compares them to the one offered by phpMyAdmin.
Tracking in other software applications
Having access to historic data that displays all of the changes made to an information system is a feature that is taken for granted in many software products. The "undo" feature of any serious word-processing software is an ...
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