Deleting files and corresponding entries from database

Question

I have a web site which handles files management. User can upload file, add description, edit and delete. What are the best practices for that kind of scenario?

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Answer 1

Vista introduced Transactional NTFS that will allow you to wrap file system operations along with database operations into a transaction that can be rolled back if either failed. This is not in .Net 3.5 and I do not know if it will be part of .Net 4.0, but there is evidence that it works today with a bit of leg work, i.e. by using Win32 calls (see this article).

I know nothing about transaction management in PHP.