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Comment by vincnetas

1 month ago

Thats why you do design o DB and decide if this data is really needed to be stored, for how long, now sensitive it is etc. You don't just add data to DB as you go (well ideally).

If only it were that easy. Only a small amount of government data is in a database, if even electronic at all. A lot of it is on paper, in Microsoft word, in emails, in a voicemail, etc.

Nobody is going to write a DB schema or call a DBA before taking notes in a notebook… but that’s government data too.

Example: https://home.nps.gov/katm/blogs/images/IMG_3229.jpg