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Airtable Sandbox

  • May 19, 2025
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  • jwag
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Hi there,

 

I’m just wondering if anyone has tested the new Sandbox beta yet? This looks like something that would be really beneficial to us, but having never used anything like it I’m interested to hear other people’s experiences before enabling it.

 

An example of something I’m not sure about is that I will sometimes have to make bulk changes to data when making field changes (eg splitting or consolidating fields), which may still be getting edited in Production while I’m making the changes in Sandbox. Does Airtable do anything to manage this?

 

Looking forward to hearing your experiences.

 

Thanks,

Josh

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    Mike_AutomaticN
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    Hey ​@jwag!

    Actually I never used it. I usually follow personal best practices for making bold changes to live bases (should probably write something on that matter and share it here), so I wouldn’t say Sandbox is an absolute MUST. But for sure would have been very nice to use it on multiple occassions.

    ​@ScottWorld any experience using Sandbox?

    Mike, Consultant @ Automatic Nation

    ScottWorld
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    • ScottWorld
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    • May 20, 2025

    Hi ​@Mike_AutomaticN!

    Thanks for asking! I never requested access to the sandbox beta, so I do not have any experience with it yet. It will be very interesting to see how it works.

    However, similar to your thoughts above, I don’t think the sandbox will be too valuable of a feature for me, so I doubt that I will be using it much.

    Similar to what you mentioned above, I have an extremely long history of making live changes to very complicated enterprise-level database systems, because I’ve never before used a database platform that offered a sandbox.

    I spent 3 decades developing in FileMaker which doesn’t offer a sandbox, and now, I’ve been developing in Airtable for almost a decade

    I have never experienced or caused a problem to any of my clients’ database systems with live development, so I don’t have much of a need for a sandbox.

    But it will still be cool to play around with it and see how Airtable implements it. And maybe I’ll have a strong use-case scenario for it someday!

    - ScottWorld, Expert Airtable Consultant


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