Why can a failure in a database environment be more serious than an error in a nondatabase environment?

Failure in a database environment is more serious then a non data base because if you lose important information you may not get it back and failure in a nondatabase environment the problem may be more easier to solve

Failures in database environments can occur due to hardware failures, power failures and software/programming error.

Of these three errors, the non-database environment can survive the hardware failure due to recovery processes and the Software/programming error.

Explanation:

Databases are quite fragile when they hit a hardware failure if you try to recover them (Most of them have raw files that can only be read by certain types of Database Management Softwares) this does not exist in the Non-Database Scenario as most of these records are kept in files.

Software failures can occur when a wrong query is used to retrieve data from a DBMS. This can be frustrating except the user gets the right query.