Performing Forensic delete

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When I want to delete a file so that it is hard to recover that file again by forensic methods, I would overwrite the file numerous times with random data and then unlink the file. Forensic deletion of data from the database could also be done the same way. Is there a specified method for deleting data from the texis database so that it is hard to extract information forensically from it once they are deleted? How easy is it to perform a forensic delete on texis database?
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If you are deleting the entire database then you can use the same method with the database files. If you want to do a specific record you could update it with random data of the same length as the original however many times you wanted before deleting the record.
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So, will I be overwriting the same location where the original data resided in the first place?
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Yes, if you update the record with an equal or smaller size data. If you update the record with more text than already existed the record may move somewhere else.
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