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by blattimwind 2233 days ago
Data is only inserted, not changed or deleted.
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You seem to be missing that data can still be read after it is insterted, provided it is not updated. So think if more like WORM rather than write-only.
for compliance. you want this behavior to be enforced at the database level so that any buggy code does not edit a previous row.