# No longer a way to keep PROD and DEV databases in sync

**URL:** <https://replit.discourse.group/t/no-longer-a-way-to-keep-prod-and-dev-databases-in-sync/8168>\
**Category:** Agent & Assistant\
**Tags:** using-replit\
**Created:** [December 16, 2025, 8:43pm UTC](https://replit.discourse.group/t/no-longer-a-way-to-keep-prod-and-dev-databases-in-sync/8168 "2025-12-16T20:43:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![JHM](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex010/user_avatar/replit.discourse.group/jhm/32/247_2.png) [@JHM](https://replit.discourse.group/u/JHM)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 8:43pm UTC](https://replit.discourse.group/t/no-longer-a-way-to-keep-prod-and-dev-databases-in-sync/8168/1 "2025-12-16T20:43:10Z")

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I understand all the really good reasons for maintaining separate databases for DEV and PROD, but…it’s honestly a little annoying when you’re building something under very active development. Is there a way to go back to the old way?

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**Author:** ![franky](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex010/user_avatar/replit.discourse.group/franky/32/806_2.png) [@franky](https://replit.discourse.group/u/franky)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 8:51pm UTC](https://replit.discourse.group/t/no-longer-a-way-to-keep-prod-and-dev-databases-in-sync/8168/2 "2025-12-16T20:51:19Z")

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can you not prompt that to replit? use a single DB for DEV & PROD (if that’s what you’re after?)

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**Author:** ![shawn93](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex010/user_avatar/replit.discourse.group/shawn93/32/1239_2.png) [@shawn93](https://replit.discourse.group/u/shawn93)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 7:31am UTC](https://replit.discourse.group/t/no-longer-a-way-to-keep-prod-and-dev-databases-in-sync/8168/3 "2025-12-17T07:31:06Z")

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If that doesn’t work, you could use the data info and point prod to the dev database (use the URL, user, pw, etc. in the prod environment variables).

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**Author:** ![mark](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex010/user_avatar/replit.discourse.group/mark/32/196_2.png) [@mark](https://replit.discourse.group/u/mark)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 8:17pm UTC](https://replit.discourse.group/t/no-longer-a-way-to-keep-prod-and-dev-databases-in-sync/8168/4 "2025-12-17T20:17:03Z")

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This works, true story, at least with Neon database as it can write to public database. Not sure with new native database. Replit Agent: Write script to push dev database data to prod