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  • Do I understand you correctly that you want to move a interrelated set of entities from one set of tables to a different set of tables, while keeping the relations intact? Commented Nov 5, 2014 at 7:26
  • Is it correct that you haven't decided if you are going to archive the deleted data in a file or a set of archive tables? You should really make that decision first, depending on why you are going to archive the data (which you did not tell us so far). Commented Nov 5, 2014 at 8:27
  • 1. Yes, you got it right. 2. Primary reason is to reduce the DB size but secondarily it could be used for different purposes which are yet not decided (not that important though). Commented Nov 5, 2014 at 17:52
  • @instanceOfObject: since you did not adress me in your comment, I did not see it in my inbox. Commented Nov 6, 2014 at 15:55
  • @BartvanIngenSchenau tagging! Commented Nov 6, 2014 at 19:16