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Re:Now that people are considering NOSQL will more people co... by r00fus on Wednesday August 31, 2011 @02:34PM (#2946899)
Deletes on enterprise SQL systems are usually prevented (the preferred pattern is "mark for delete + purge" similar to a VM's garbage collection). The Application ignores "marked" data as deleted.

That leaves tracking the remaining inserts and updates, which is a well understood problem. It's called Auditing. Here is a simple script that will auto-audit a SQL Server database... variations in other SQL dialects are likely just as straighforward.

http://www.geekzilla.co.uk/ViewECBC0CC3-1C7E-4E7E-B243-F2F25...

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