Eli5 how is data deleted

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Think of data like thousands of labeled boxes in your garage.

Soft deletes remove the label from the boxes, the data is still there but it’s hard to find. (This is very simplified)

Full delete either removes the contents of the box and incinerates it, leaving the box empty… or replaces the content of the box, relabels it, then incinerates what used to be in the box.

Another simpler way to think of data is basically a whiteboard which can be erased. Data is just instructions written on billions of mini erasable whiteboards.

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