> They always say at the outset of the project that they won't need it, and they always change their mind a year in. I feel your pain. They don't want to pay f

> They always say at the outset of the project that they won't need it, and they always change their mind a year in. I feel your pain. They don't want to pay for it until they need it, but when they do need it, they need it bad. They want you to implement it retroactively so all the changes made even before you implemented it are there. When I was in the position, the solution I came up with was to do a very quick and dirty version that logged all changes for every table to a text file. Then I charged separately to parse the text file into the auditable database. I was able to get away with this because the database was tiny.