Match production configuration
Match production configuration
Administrators can temporarily match a sandbox database configuration to a typical production database. This helps evaluate production behavior, for example for performance work or cloud migration.
Area: Admin and platform. Status: GA. Developer relevance: medium. Airtime: 1 min across 1 video, demoed.
Status evidence
- Nothing said about status; launch event convention: generally available unless stated otherwise.
Where they talk about it
- What's new: Match Production Database Configuration: 0:07 to 0:56, demo at 0:43 (called "Match production configuration (sandbox)" there)
Quotes
- 0:07 "A new feature we're shipping in 2026 release wave two." - Places the feature in the 2026 release wave two timeline.
- 0:23 "can mimic the configuration of a production database in their sandbox environment to evaluate how processes would run in a typical production environment" - States the core purpose: testing production-like behavior in a sandbox.
- 0:56 "any users that are connected to the environment at the time you do this will be disconnected" - Warns that running the action disrupts connected users.
Caveats mentioned
- Configuration is temporary and reverts to a typical sandbox configuration
Prerequisites mentioned
- Sandbox environment
- Paid license type
Documented features match
- No documented item matched. Not documented
Docs checked on 2026-10-02: the match is against Microsoft's what's new pages for the wave as they were on that date. Microsoft keeps filling the documentation, so "no documented item" can go stale. The wider product documentation on learn.microsoft.com was searched for this feature on the same date; the feature's data lists an article when one was found.
Tags: admin, sandbox, performance, cloud-migration
Generated by pipeline step 06. Source: YouTube auto-captions of the launch event videos, see the deep links. Not official.