From the course: CompTIA IT Fundamentals (FC0-U61) Cert Prep 3: Computer Maintenance and Troubleshooting, Databases, and Programming

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AMA: Ask me anything about databases

AMA: Ask me anything about databases

- Hey Shannon. - Hey Scott. - What are you working on? - I'm working on ITF. - Well how about that. You know I know a book. - Ya, I've heard that (laughs). Got a couple questions for you. - Lay it on me. - Let's talk about databases. - Okay, all right, databases. - First of all, if I update my database, and there's no save button, how do I know that my data is safe? - Right. One if the key factors with a database is changes are made automatically, they're saved automatically. And the reason why is because when you have multiple people working on a database at the same time, you want to have all of that information just updated at the same time so that every person sees everything, right? - Uh huh. - That then begs the question is how do you know your stuff is safe? How do you have data persistence, is the word we're looking for. And that goes back to how the server is set up, the thing that's…

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