Keeping testing and production server environments clean, in sync, and consistent

Question

It seems that the company that I work for is always struggling with our customers’ server environments.

Specifically, we almost always encounter pro

Answer 1

For keeping MySQL databases in sync, I just ran into this tool:

http://schemasync.org/

I haven't actually used it yet so I can't speak to whether it's any good, but we need some way to control schema drift between test and prod so we're going to give it a shot.