Sandbox is a testing and development environment and production is live data environment.Its aim is to continue testing and development tasks without disturbing live data of org owner. There is ANT migration tool, change Sets and you can use Eclipse IDE also.
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Sandbox is a testing and development environment and production is live data environment.Its aim is to continue testing and development tasks without disturbing live data of org owner. There is ANT migration tool, change Sets and you can use Eclipse IDE also.
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Nitesh
This document may help you :http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/dev_lifecycle/salesforce_development_lifecycle.pdf
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