Question

I have just started with professional programming and my manager tends to dictate that i keep create, modified and delete date in all database tables that we use. I want to know does it makes sense to keep these fields for enterprise application. The reason I am asking it that because all examples, tutorials i have ever read on net, books never had such fields in place and also it increases complexity because each time I have to work with entities, i have to make sure I am using entity.DeleteDate == null

Thanks for your suggestions

Answer 1

its generally better to keep everything you can, and then in the future you may decide to remove certain fields / records, which is possible. if you dont keep it, when its gone, its gone, and you’re never getting it back. if you store it, and these days, theres no reason not to store it since space costs next to nothing, you will have the data 2 years later when you need to pull some audit report your manager is going to ask for