Question

I want to see your opinion on this issue.

I’m using MySQL database for my projects, and in almost every table, I have a column called Status defined (ENUM(‘active’,’inactive’,’deleted’)).

I do this for performance reasons, so whenever a row is not needed(deleted), I set it to ‘deleted’ instead of actually deleting it from the DB. This has proven fairly good.

But, now I always have to write PHP functions in my projects for updating a row from Active to Deleted.

What do you think, how can I solve this using MySQL triggers or using other technique?

Thank you

Answer 1

What’s wrong about updating a row to set it to deleted?

After all,

UPDATE projects SET status = 'deleted' WHERE id = :id;

vs

DELETE FROM projects WHERE id = :id;

do not make much of a difference or does it?