pg 93049 (2/24/2016)
Apologies for replying to an old post but for the benefit of anyone looking for a tool to compare configuration settings (inc. jobs). You can use the beta version of OmniConfig from Alien??Armpit.
Agreed. Old but still valuable post.
To add to what everyone has stated, upgrading prod with dev jobs is absolutely insane unless one has done very close scrutiny of the code to look for things like 3 and 4 part naming and anything that may look at external boxes. It would be a real bitch if you suddenly started updating prod with dev data because of copying a job.
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.