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I am working in asp.net MVC 3 Website and I need to keep track of any changes made to a table/entity. Whenever on Edit view something is modified, a list of changes will display with date, changes made columns below that Edit view. Do I need to create another table with entityHistory Name or I need to insert another record in same table for that ?
Please suggest
Depends what you want to do with the history data. If you want to show the record or object graph snapshots I have found creating a History table, with the same columns as the current table, easier to work with in building up how the complete record looked after or before a certain change. This also means that you’ll have duplicated tables and data.
If your needs is a pure audit requirement it is easier to have one/two tables that holds data for entity, property, old value and new value columns.