Integrating data pipelines across environments

When considering how to integrate your workflows across environments, there are two major factors to be aware of:

• Connection compatibility
• Target environment

The connection compatibility consideration is about whether the environments will recognize the connections. We have spoken about connection strings as the first method for managing the connection across environments, but it is a simple method for ensuring that the connection will work across the environments.

The target environment consideration is about how you target different database connections across the desktop, development, and production environments. Commonly, you will have a production environment that is the primary system that supports your company. To make changes to your production environment directly is very risky if you do not test the impact the changes might have. Those impacts may concern the sequencing of other processes or how the overall...