> data will be missing that wasn't collected properly the first time Maybe I'm nitpicking but even if you had that field in the database, it's still up to the

> data will be missing that wasn't collected properly the first time Maybe I'm nitpicking but even if you had that field in the database, it's still up to the application to collect it (unless it's something like a timestamp, but that's just a dumb mistake regardless of how you design your database)