Enterprise programming/server strategy

[Jeff Dean]

Hello,

As I finish converting our office databases to multi-user and put them  
into use, I can imagine there will periodically need to be ongoing  
modifications that will require programming and testing using live  
data on the server. To avoid working with and changing the actual  
office data, is it normal practice or even possible to have the  
databases on a second server which is only used for development? Is it  
possible to upload a database to more than one server if it is only  
connected to one at a time? Is there some other way to do this without  
shutting down the office during development and testing?

Thanks,
Jeff