What is Sandbox?
A copy of the production organization is known as a sandbox. Sandboxes allow you to create multiple copies of an organization in different environments.
It can use these copies for different purposes like training, development, and testing.
Sandbox helps take care of these tasks without compromising data present on the applications on the production organization.
Sandbox is required for almost every salesforce installation.
Sandbox Types
There are different types of sandboxes available. These types are as follows:
Developer
The developer sandbox is used for coding or testing in an isolated environment.
The Sandbox has the production organization’s metadata.
You can refresh the data after every twenty-nine days.
The limit of the Sandbox depends on the productions.
Developer Pro
The developer pro sandbox is not much different from a developer sandbox.
It is also used for testing and costing in an isolated environment, and it includes metadata of production org.
The difference between the two is that the storage limit if the pro is larger.
It provides more space to test the robustness and a larger amount of data.
It can also run higher quality assurance tasks. It can refresh it once daily.
Partial Data Copy
The partial data copy sandbox has the metadata along with a subset of the production data.
The term sandbox template is used for defining the subset data, and you can use it to test or code the data from your org.
It can refresh the partial data copy every five days.
Full Sandbox
A full sandbox is a complete copy of the production organization.
It has all the data, including object records, attachments, and metadata.
The data in the full Sandbox is not a live copy.
It is used for testing once the coding and development are done in a developer and developer sandbox.
It allows you to see the workflow and process, like how it reacts to the data.
While creating a complete sandbox, you have the option of choosing how much chatter activity and field tracking you want.
Make sure that you keep in mind how extensively the company uses chatter because if it is used too much, the feed can be too much.
Important things to know about Sandbox
Sandboxes have limitations, and here are some important details you must know:
- The performance edition comes with switch licenses for one full and partial copy sandbox, 30 developer sandboxes, and five developer pro sandboxes.
- Enterprise edition has a license for a single developer sandbox.
- The unlimited edition has licenses for five developer pro sandboxes, 15 developer sandboxes, and one full Sandbox.
- If you require more licenses for sandboxes, you will need to contact salesforce and order.
Different sandboxes offer different storage limits.
- Partial copy sandboxes have a 5 GB storage limit
- Developer Pro sandboxes offer a 1 GB storage limit
- Developer sandboxes come with a 200 MB data storage limit
- The storage limit of full sandboxes is the same as the production organization
Conclusion
It is essential to understand the strengths of sandboxes and use them accordingly to get the best results.
It offers flexibility to the organization and allows them to customize easily.
