Jean took this opportunity to tell us about an event held at the Metropolitan Community College of Kansas City, coordinated by Jane Smeltzer. Attendees were able to look at the system, watch videos, and get some hands-on experience. Jean thought we might want to try to do something like this and she has examples of everything that KC used for the event. Database Instances Bill and Theresa discussed the number of copies of the database we will have. We are most familiar with the test and prototype databases.
Test is used for experimentation, understanding setups, and trying out approaches.
Prototype is our initial UWW setup and we will use it for testing different scenarios. We will have another database strictly for converting data. It will be a subset of everything to make sure that the conversion process works effectively. The production database is the one we'll actually use once we go live. We will convert and put all the data there.