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How recording of every change of a row in a database is generaly stored?

In a project I'm working on, every change to the rows in some tables of the database must be tracked for further audit or rollback. It must be easy to find who modified the row, from which IP address ...
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250 billion rows - computing interconnectedness on a really huge scale

I have a table of approximately 700k rows, each identified by a unique itemnumber. Each row/item can be associated with any of the other rows/items in the table by calculating a single numerical ...
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MySQL Explain: Using index, using temporary, using filesort. Can this query be improved?

I'm working on a event tracking system which uses a handful of lookup tables as well as the primary logging table. In a report I'm writing, an object can be selected to view statistics against. The ...
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Schema design for privacy settings in MongoDB

I have a set of documents that can have various privacy settings around them: They can be completed public (any registered user) can view them They can be viewable only by people following you (this ...
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Database schema design help needed

I am developing a PHP application expecting millions of records both parent and children. My goal is to design an optimized database design to achieve high speed and performance. This application ...