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To `DELETE FROM` you have to have at least a relatively vague idea what you are doing. Go and find an organization that has their data and component dependency maps ready and up to date :)

One hard delete can expose months worth of bugs.

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'Our data design is too bad to allow anyone to delete anything' is not, to me, a valid reason to prevent actual deletion.

Enter Git. (FTR, I don't think it's bad data design. It's a tradeoff. Sometimes it's even a feature.)

Can't delete from backups, though.

If you really cannot (although, most probably just burdensome), you can always render the data unreadable. E.g. by destroying the keys.

Don't forget to backup those keys, though :)

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