The Five Most Important Columns to Add to Every Database Table

Let me tell you about one of the worst days of my career. A client called me, furious. Corrupted records, no idea who changed what, no idea when anything was changed — and someone had deleted three years of customer data. Gone. Poof. Like it never existed. All of that pain could have been avoided with five columns . Five. Columns. I have been working in the IT industry for over 25 years — across software development, architecture, and consulting. I have seen systems built brilliantly and systems