Referential integrity constraints? Probably not. Most likely this will be a MySQL database. Does MySQL even have views? It didn't last time I worked with it, but I'm not fully up to speed on new developments.

Yes, this implementation would make reversion irreversable. I guess that might not be desirable although that's a better question for the clients than for me. I could implement a reversible reversion by creating a new version as a copy of the old one. That should be pretty easy to implement considering that the checkout routine will already need a cloning capability.

I think in this case my users really will want full versioning capabilities. The system they're using now has them and I think they've gotten pretty used to it. However, given what a pain this is to implement I think I can make a pretty strong argument that going with something simpler could save them a lot of money in development.

Thanks for the help,
-sam

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Version Control in Database Applications by samtregar
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