The Trouble with Soft DeleteSoft delete is a commonly-used pattern amongst database-driven business applications. In my experience, however, it usually ends up causing more harm than good. Here’s a few reasons why it can fail in bigger applications, and some less-painful alternatives to consider. Tomato, Tomato I’ve seen a few different implementations of this pattern in action. First is the standard deleted flag to indicate
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Deleting Data Is Not a Recommended Practice
