Pitfalls of Soft Deletes: Measuring the Impact on Unique Constraints, Indexes, and FKs in MySQL｜Kou

IntroductionIt is a common story that a table started with the assumption that "soft deletes using `deleted_at` are safe" ...
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Recursively delete items in a MySQL table - foreign key, or something else?

I'm working on a web app, and it part of it, there is a very simple database-driven file/document manager. As a file manager, there is the possibility of sub-folders. So in the DB, I have the ...