i have absolutely no experience or knowledge in IT/computer science whatsoever. i saw a post about someone who messed up at work by ‘deleting prod’, and apparently that’s a super big deal. google isn’t helping bc i don’t understand any of these CS terms.
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Most applications use information to perform whatever it is meant to perform. Databases are commonly used to store information. Production is the live application (there are commonly other ‘environments’ where different phases of application development occur).
Deleting the production database is simply removing the database that powers the live application and breaking the application.
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