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Asked: 2026-05-30T19:14:30+00:00

Not sure if this question is suitable for StackOverflow as it’s much more ‘general’.

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Not sure if this question is suitable for StackOverflow as it’s much more ‘general’. Basically, I have a database driven business application made in ASP.NET and C#, which’ll be used by around 20 members of a company. A crucial aspect of this is auditing – I need to log on any changes to any of the tables, and have them viewable by senior members of the staff.

My current solution uses SQL triggers, but I need to create something much more robust and user friendly. The database is gigantic, with a lot of tables with relations etc, and the audits currently are very uninformative to the users – telling the staff that x user modified an order to have a customer of ID of 837 is near enough useless – I need to be able to dictate which field is displayed in the audit log.

My idea is to create a class in my code that’ll handle all these, and somehow map out what fields to display to the user, and also somehow tell the code which table was modified and which record.

Can anyone offer any general advice on how to do what I want, and whether it’s actually possibile? I’m a heavy user of LINQ-to-SQL in my code, so I’m hoping that’ll help…

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  1. Editorial Team

    You could also try using DoddleAudit for your needs. It provides automatic auditing of all inserts/updates/deletes for any table in your database with a single line of code, including:

    What table was modified?
What fields changed?
Who made the change?
When did it occur?

    You can find it here: http://doddleaudit.codeplex.com/

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