Many production databases today are in the tens or hundreds of gigabytes in size. That size is not a problem for production hardware. However, developers generally like to work on their personal computers, including notebooks with limited disk capacity, so a 10-100GB database size is an issue. Furthermore, it can be impractical to transfer such large data files over the network on a regular basis, if working time is lost. For this reason, it is preferable to work on a smaller sized database with the same schema. The major difference between a small development database and the full-sized production database is the statistical data distributi..
