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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The production database is like the master copy of the database that’s actually being used by end users through applications as opposed to a copy that’s just being used to test software or procedures before they get used on the production database or a backup copy which is a snapshot of the database at some point in time. Deleting it basically means deleting all the data that’s being stored in that database. When you delete it, your only remedy is to load a backup copy. If your backup copy is a week old, you’ve lost an entire week’s worth of work being done in that database.
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