On 08/08/13 14:06, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
Tom Hughes wrote:
No, because they each use their own database, which is entirely
separate from the main database.

...and because site improvements often require changes to the database
structure - new columns, new indexes, and so on - so it wouldn't generally
be possible to hook test instances up to the main (unimproved) database even
if it were desirable. [This is implicit in Tom's message but I thought I'd
point it out!]

Indeed. If it wasn't for that then all the test instances would probably share one database, which would help here. The fact that different test instances may have different schemas prevents that however.

Tom

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