Originally posted by filmamigo We run lots of web-based databases at work. Training and demos are supposed to happen on staging servers and never see the light of day.
But it's not uncommon to see someone being trained on the production system.
"See, you just click here, enter a name... I'll just make up a Pentax [hits random keys] KZ922.... enter some data... these fields are mandatory, so we'll say the specs are 8.3FPS.... and when it's all done, you just click the POST button." [CLICK] "You mean like that?" "Ah..... yeah.... let me submit a request to get that deleted...."
In my jobs we had a "sandbox" for playing in - testing, training, etc. At my last job we provided software for radio/TV stations, and we were very cautious about what we did with 'live' sites .... but amateurs might be more reckless.