No, there is a test environment (a database exactly the same as the live db).

Here is the history of my position, there is a programmer on site who does development in VB6 and Turbo Pascal for the existing systems, changes are made daily as the system has never been stable (built from +-25 years of bad foundation).

In the SQL database's used, table names and column name are literally sentences with spaces and most field types are all char. The program that has been developed over the years, pretty much follows the same nature. No standards or rules what so ever. So that is why I am here.

I dont do any development in VB6, as I do not want to get caught up in maintaining the current system as opposed to rewriting it.

So, the other programmer was not able to do what ever testing he needed to do the day he came in, due to that column.