Working with data is an essential part of keeping information stored in a safe environment, which allows for fast retrieval.

Microsoft® SQL Server© is the industry standard for fast and reliable storage of your customers' critical data.

If it were not for databases, every page you visit online would be an actual page stored on a server's hard drive. The performance would suffer significantly, and the space required to store all the individual pages would be huge. Could you imagine just for one second, a website such as Facebook® having all its pages stored on hard drives? You think their data centers are massive now. They would be even bigger and would have more of them.

A database allows you to maintain a static webpage layout that pulls data from a database.
An example using ASP Classic.

Let's say the top code here is from a database, and these are the values.

CFFCS | CarrzSynEdit: | ASP/VBScript

<%
Username = "MyUsername"
strAvatar = "JD"
FullName = "Jane Doe"
MemberDate = "2024"
EmailAddress = "my@email.com"
%>

Now we can render them out to the page, using Server-side tags <% %>

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CFFCS | CarrzSynEdit: | HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language)

<title><%=Username%> : User Profile | My Website</title>

<div class="card">
    <div class="profile-header">
      <div class="avatar"><%=strAvatar%></div>
      <h2><%=FullName%></h2>
      <p style="color: #6b7280; font-size: 14px;">Member since :<%=MemberDate%></p>
    </div>
      <div class="form-group">
      <p style="color: #6b7280; font-size: 14px;">Email Address :<%=EmailAddress%></p>
      </div>
</div>

This type of technology lets you create a custom website template that you never have to touch again. When a new user joins your site, all their data will be rendered to the page without any further input from the developer.