What is Sandbox in Salesforce? What are the types of Sandboxes available?

Hi Piyush,

Sandboxes are isolated from your production org, so operations that you perform in your sandboxes don’t affect your production org. Sandbox is a copy of your production organization. You can create multiple copies of your organization in separate environments for different purposes.When you create a sandbox, Salesforce copies the metadata from your production org to a sandbox org.

SandBox are following type

1. Developer Sandbox: A Developer sandbox is intended for development and testing in an isolated environment. A Developer Sandbox includes a copy of your production org’s configuration (metadata).
2. Developer Pro Sandbox: A Developer Pro sandbox is intended for development and testing in an isolated environment and can host larger data sets than a Developer sandbox. A Developer Pro sandbox includes a copy of your production org’s configuration (metadata).
3. Partial Copy Sandbox: A Partial Copy sandbox is intended to be used as a testing environment. This environment includes a copy of your production org’s configuration (metadata) and a sample of your production org’s data as defined by a sandbox template.
4. Full Sandbox: A Full sandbox is intended to be used as a testing environment. Only Full sandboxes support performance testing, load testing, and staging. Full sandboxes are a replica of your production org, including all data, such as object records and attachments, and metadata. The length of the refresh interval makes it difficult to use Full sandboxes for development.