March 2020
Beginner to intermediate
334 pages
7h 27m
English
With any sort of e-commerce site, it's always on, and always accepting new orders and payments and marking items as shipped. Because of this, if you ever replace a live database with a test database, you could have catastrophic results. It will often take days or weeks to make a test site, test the changes, and get them approved. In that time frame, there will very often be a new order and if you replace the live database with the test database, you erase all records of that order. If you're lucky, there will still be an email sent to you and the customer but you'll have no other records, which is a bad spot to be in.
This is why you'll never want to overwrite the live database. You'll want to work ...
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