Learning Sitecore - A beginner tutorial on Sitecore CMS

         Hello! Techie...This Post gives brief description of Sitecore CMS and it's few concepts.

What is CMS(Content Management System)? 

              The Content Management System is for creating, modifying the content in the digital experience(site) without developer's help.

             There are many CMS tools are available in the market, each has their own pros and cons. But Sitecore CMS is powerful framework for enterprise solution. Because it has the advantages of scaling, flexibility and very well integrated into third party systems.

Sitecore CMS

            Sitecore is one of CMS tool. It is leading digital experience software used by organizations globally to create a personalized digital experience.

     Databases :

     When Sitecore is installed, there are few databases are created. The below database are main database in Sitecore. 

• Core - To maintain a CMS configuration related data. like buttons, link, labels
• Master - To maintain a all version of items
• Web  -To maintain a live version of item

   And also few other databases are created for store analytics and user session data.

     Publishing :

        Publishing means changing the content from the Master database to Web Database(making the content live)

       There are few methods are available in the publishing,

• Republish - It publish all the content in the Sitecore whether it's changed or not
• Smart Publish - It publish only changed items. It find items based comparing the item revision number in the Master and Web database.
• Incremental Publish -It publish the items in the publishing queue               

   Deployment  :

               It is required to apply the changes from one instance to another instance in Sitecore. Sitecore support two deployment options: Publishing and Serialization

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