Several ways to do this.
1 - Exit points used by SQL.  A popular way to do that is via exit point 
software.  But you wanted to avoid purchasing software (why do I keep 
thinking of the forging of a hammer example given recently?).
2 - If you want to report on all updates you could use trigger programs. 
You could even add fields to a file and update them yourself.  Picture 
adding "Last Updated date" and "updated by" fields.  Your trigger could 
examine it's call stack and determine if the update was done via STRSQL 
etc., and if so, alert someone.

Rob Berendt

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