Hi All,Sorry to ask this question in this forum. Its more kind of general and not a technical question.Can anyone tell me what are the drawbacks of using Production Server as a Testing Server. Recently, I got into an uncomfortable conversation with my manager who is a not so technical but he wanted me to do performance testing of slow running SQL Agent jobs which client was asking for a long time. I just joined this team a week before and this is my 1st task assigned to me!!They are blunt and wanted me to work on the same.I explained to some extent that doesn't work and if any changes made to the code and re-running/creating indexes/updating stats/turning on trace flags/running traces, will lead to adverse performance of ongoing/running workload. Still they insist me to do that. I just kept quite and came out of that discussion room.I need some inputs/specific usecase's of what can go wrong if we use a PROD server for testing purposes. How can I convince these management guys that what I am supposed to do is wrong and in a polite way.Not sure how to convey the BIG NO NO message here.. Can anyone help me with some specific use case so that I can convince my management and get a testing environment.Thanks.
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