Changing a link to the database to make a dev version of a prod report just screws up the report apparently. Supposedly there is some wacky workaround for this, but the paradigm does not by default lend itself towards making dev, test, and prod versions of the same report from one report so that there is not the one-off wackiness of changes in a particular report or some cumbersome process of making the same change three times in three reports. There just seems to be an assumption in this space that you'd only do reporting off of production data. My team lead has suggested that it is really hard to do analytics with the sparse datasets in dev and test typically, so on some level this makes sense.
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