How a website uses a database?

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Database applications are used to search, sort, filter and present information based upon web requests from users. Databases can also contain code to perform mathematical and statistical calculations on the data to support queries submitted from web browsers.

Does a website have a database?

Most websites today are database driven. This means the content, code and other components are stored in a database. The pages on the site don't actually exist permanently.

What type of database is used by website?

MySQL is probably the most popular for websites. PostgreSQL is another great open-source RDBMS. Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server are commercial, but powerful databases. Stack Overflow is a good example of a website that uses MS SQL Server.

How do you tell if a website uses a database?

One of the simplest ways for an attacker to determine what database is being used by an application would be to cause the application to error in some way with a database query. Then if error handling isn't enabled within the application ( which often its not ) the database error will be shown.

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