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Old 05-25-2004, 10:36 AM  
KidCock
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Join Date: May 2003
Location: San Pedro, Costa Rica
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Originally posted by VideoJ
Here's whree to start http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Binary_log.html It logs all updates to your databases. You can then build an app that validates the databases, for example does the payout match the total signups and were there any changes at the last minute.

Also if you're worried about your programmer, have another independent programmer audit the production code. Programmers can put some crazy stuff in their code if they think no one is looking
Looking at that URL, thx.

We do have a process that all production code has to go through me, and all production code relating to money/processing goes through myself and my boss. That's been working well for no surprises. However once our staff has access to our production databases, they can change things directly in the DB...
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