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A) what @AurumMan79 said. Soft delete is much better.
B) Tell your manager he's an idiot. There's no good reason to *not* maintain database integrity using the tools provided...
A database without integrity checks is as good as a Bag of randomly generated rows
When your project partner tells you not yo use database constraints, know that he's about to do some messy handling of the database.
How can someone make a user deletable and leave his other data lying around in other tables? I'm tired.
Messy codes everywhere.
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