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To Delete or to Soft Delete, That is the Question!

by It allows you to mark some records as deleted without actual erasure from the database.

Consider the following requirements in addition to “simple data restore” before making a decision on using soft deletion in your project: If you see that your business requirements match the list above, it means that you may need to implement the “Soft Delete” feature in your application.

You just add the “Is_Deleted” or “Delete_Date” column to your tables (or attributes to your Document) and replace all delete statement invocations in your application code to updates.

To comply with this you still need to implement a “purge” process in addition to soft delete.