I definitely agree - access to production data would be a huge help in most development jobs. It has never been clear to me why database anonymization isn't mor

I definitely agree - access to production data would be a huge help in most development jobs. It has never been clear to me why database anonymization isn't more frequently used to give developers ready access to "pseudo-production" data in order to troubleshoot. So many companies will maintain separate production and test databases but let the test databases get so out of sync with production that it's very difficult to ensure that a fix in a test environment will work in production. The way I see it, the test database should simply be an anonymized mirror of production, and then everybody wins.