#soft-delete

How to: Are soft deletes a good idea?

Are soft deletes a good idea?

Are soft deletes a good idea or a bad idea?

Instead of actually deleting a record in your database, you would just flag it as IsDeleted = true, and upon recovery of the record you could just flag it as False.

Is this a good idea?

Is it a better idea to physically delete the record, then move it to an archive database, and if the user wants the record back, then…