I haven't thought about this too deeply, but I think "simple" is overstating it. Being able to turn on versioning for any table by basically just pushing a button seems really powerful.
There's application-layer stuff like paper_trail for rails that can do this for you, but you're stuck if your language doesn't have a good one.
Building it into the db also means that any out-of-band direct edits to the DB also get tracked.
I haven't thought about this too deeply, but I think "simple" is overstating it. Being able to turn on versioning for any table by basically just pushing a button seems really powerful.
There's application-layer stuff like paper_trail for rails that can do this for you, but you're stuck if your language doesn't have a good one.
Building it into the db also means that any out-of-band direct edits to the DB also get tracked.