`active' flag or not?

Question

OK, so practically every database based application has to deal with \"non-active\" records. Either, soft-deletions or marking something as \"to be ignored\". I\'m curious a

Answer 1

I think looking at it strictly as a piece of data then the way that is shown in the original post is proper. The active flag piece of data is directly dependent upon the primary key and should be in the table.

That table holds data on people, irrespective of the current status of their data.