What should happen after soft deleting a record?

1. What does a soft delete do?
2. Is soft delete a good practice?
3. When to soft delete vs hard delete?
4. How does laravel soft delete work?

What does a soft delete do?

A soft delete marks a record as no longer active or valid without actually deleting it from the database. Soft deletes can improve performance, and can allow “deleted” data to be recovered. Did this article help you?

Is soft delete a good practice?

Using soft-deletion even for one entity will lead you to a bunch of new development conventions. You need to keep in mind that the delete process is not just delete, but sometimes the update, and not all data in a database table should be available for the application.

When to soft delete vs hard delete?

Hard deletes are hard to recover from if something goes wrong (application bug, bad migration, manual query, etc.). This usually involves restoring from a backup and it is hard to target only the data affected by the bad delete. Soft deletes are easier to recover from once you determine what happened.

How does laravel soft delete work?

Soft delete hides information from end-user or flags data as deleted while it still remains visible or active in your database. To perform soft delete in Laravel, you need to have a deleted_at column that should be set to default null , as it should be of timestamp data type in the model.