Stuart McLachlan
stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Thu Sep 8 21:10:30 CDT 2011
In my experience DEV, TEST, PROD or DEV/TEST, PROD as separate instances on the same server is very common in small/medium enterprises. Few organisations in that bracket, especially at the smaller end, lash out on separate development hardware. -- Stuart On 8 Sep 2011 at 21:39, Arthur Fuller wrote: > Everything Francisco said, plus another good reason, IMO: While the > typical shop (with money) runs DEV, TEST and PROD versions of any > given project, each running on a separate server. In my income > bracket, that is simply not possible. So I fake it with instances. The > same reasoning applies to versioning. I may need a running copy of the > previous version as I work on the current version, if only for > comparison. > > Arthur > _______________________________________________ > dba-SQLServer mailing list > dba-SQLServer at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-sqlserver > http://www.databaseadvisors.com > >