How do databases contribute to the development of dynamic websites?What is SQL, ODBS or DBA? Find your answers in our new database-focused articles
What makes the web such a lively and interactive environment occupying a great percentage of our daily lives? This is the ever-expanding pool of dynamic websites offering us a new revolutionary way to ‘experience’ the online-presented information. Well, there comes the question – what makes websites dynamic and able to respond to a variety of browsing actions performed by visitors. The Database terminology section of our NTC Hosting encyclopedia gives you an extended look at databases – the main reason for websites’ interactivity we all witness today on the web. Going further in our efforts to introduce you to the secrets of databases – we added a bunch of new articles to our encyclopedia.
Why does database rank among the most important structural elements of the web today? What lies behind the database-driven interaction allowing for a well-organized mechanism of communication between visitors and the information stored on websites? Our recently-added article offers a new fresh look at the database approach in website development and reveals some interesting details about the powerful set of capabilities intrinsic of databases.
What would databases be without SQL – the basic database computer language, existing on the web development scene for more than two decades now? The SQL query language offers developers great flexibility in inserting, modifying, deleting or retrieving data in databases easily with the help of a convenient SQL command-line interface.
Going deep into the database theme we have prepared you another interesting article dedicated to ODBS – a widely used database access method, allowing for developers to reach any data through any application, regardless of the DBMS (database management system) used for managing that data.
Although working with databases is related to full automation of the data manipulation processes, the database management process itself does require continuous human intervention. In such cases we need to resort to the services of a DBA i.e. – database administrators. Each database administrator may be engaged in performing various database manipulation tasks related exclusively to the environmental side of the databases such as archiving, testing, running, security control, etc..
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