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>Hi Dmitry
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>Like Mike, we set a flag on the row when the user "deletes" a record. We have a kind of OLTP system with many inserts and deletes during the day. We found that if we deleted the records when the user deleted, we were seeing a lot of blocking (and deadlocks). We defer the actual removal of records from tables to a batch job that runs nightly. Performance improved considerably.
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>Bruce
Bruce,
Thank you for your input.
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