This is why it's important to isolate production from other environments. Three rules have kept me from ever borking a production database: 1. Production DB c

This is why it's important to isolate production from other environments. Three rules have kept me from ever borking a production database: 1. Production DB credentials are only stored on the production appservers, and copied in at deploy time. 2. The production DB can only be accessed from the IPs of the production webfarm. 3. Staging, Testing, Development, and Everything Else live on separate networks and machines than production.