Database Development

I started a course about 3 months ago in Database Development.  To the naked eye you look at a table of data and just see information.  To a developer they see lines of SQL.  You cant imagine what really goes into organizing a simple table in a database.  I have to go through two entire books to understand what is going on.  I would have to say it isn’t the most interesting thing I have gone over, but it is defiantly helpful to know this stuff.  A lot of sites today will work through a data base to store all the data in the site.  Knowing how to move this data around and use it in your site is extremely important.  Sites that are ran through a database run smoother and I can do a lot more with it.  There is a complex code called PHP that you have use to communicate with a database.  You make these separate sheets with the code it sends and receives the data from the database to the site.

Another thing I got to learn was Drupal.  Being in a internship that uses a CMS, I was already kind of use to messing with them.  Drupal is amazing.  Plain and simple I love it.  It makes things that would takes hours to do in to things that you can do in minutes.  It runs through a database that it connects to automatically.  Anything you put on to the Dupral site is loaded in the database automatically.   It can hold user names, passwords and pretty much anything you can think of.  You can download new themes and change anything on them with CSS.  It uses PHP that you really dont even have to touch.  Overall I am glad I stuck with it and finished the course and I am glad I learned something new that I will be able to use in the future.

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