>Usually, DBs [e.g., Oracle] do not maintain deleted records so updating any field is needless. However, you can do it manually [with code].
>
>replace next 1 LastUpdate with date()
>delete next 1

Yes, manually I done like:

REPLACE lastUpdate WITH DATETIME()
=TABLEUPDATE(...)
DELETE
=TABLEUPDATE(..)

But it's not the way I like this, cause I wanted in a transaction, and automatic. I need to track when the users deleted some records (don't wanna also FoxAudit :-)