/Tim Fisken

Avoiding The Soft Delete Anti-Pattern tl;dr: “In the sphere of databases, this terror of deleting things leads people to advocate soft deletion: instead of really deleting a record, you add a field which marks the record as deleted, and you treat any record marked in that way as if it were deleted. This is generally a bad idea, and there are a number of better ways of ensuring access to old data.”

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Avoiding The Soft Delete Anti-Pattern tl;dr: “In the sphere of databases, this terror of deleting things leads people to advocate soft deletion: instead of really deleting a record, you add a field which marks the record as deleted, and you treat any record marked in that way as if it were deleted. This is generally a bad idea, and there are a number of better ways of ensuring access to old data.”

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Avoiding The Soft Delete Anti-Pattern tl;dr: “In the sphere of databases, this terror of deleting things leads people to advocate soft deletion: instead of really deleting a record, you add a field which marks the record as deleted, and you treat any record marked in that way as if it were deleted. This is generally a bad idea, and there are a number of better ways of ensuring access to old data.”

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