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by JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B 674 days ago
You should explain what a "salesforce sandbox" is, because it’s not obvious at all. I use salesforce at work because I have to, but I have never seen a sandbox inside.
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It's a great question!

A sandbox is a testing environment that isolates untested changes & experimentations from the production environments.

Chances are if you're using Salesforce for work, it's the "production" instance that is meant for prime-time. There is probably some admin/developer/IT person in your company that has access to creating sandboxes to test changes before they push to everyone else.

fwiw typically this is used by larger companies & isn't as useful for small startups.