From: Christian Mack
Date: March 17 1999 3:11pm
Subject: Re: Last Modification of Table/Database (fwd)
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J Yunke wrote:
> 
> Hi --
> 
>   Quick question here.  I know that individual rows can be timestamped
> with a TIMESTAMP-based field.
> 
>   Is there a way one can find out when the last time a table (or database)
> has been modified in any way?
> 
> /J
> 
> --
> 
> Justin Yunke                         + yunke@stripped

Hi Justin

The soon coming 3.23.xx version will have such feature for tables.
In the moment you only can do something like:
SELECT MAX(timestamp_field) FROM table

Tschau
Christian