john.riley-1111039 (8/22/2014)
........* So often, I have seen systems go live only to be beset by severe performance problems which needed to be addressed urgently. Using a full size database lets you find these problems before go-live.
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Totally agree, its very difficult for a developer not to tune or ask for help to tune when their work is too slow for production.
With today's hard drives there is no reason why even a 100GB database can't be restored quickly to test/develop their code against.