Deleting a Row Is One of the Hardest Things a Database Can Do

A DELETE statement looks like the simplest thing you can ask a database to do. One row, gone. But behind that single SQL command sits a chain of operations that touches indexes, foreign keys, transaction logs, replication streams, and sometimes regulatory compliance frameworks. Underestimating this is how teams end up with outages, corrupted referential integrity, and audit failures. Deletion is…