Quote Originally Posted by LKBrwn_DBA View Post
There is NOTHING I can think of that justifies the developers have daily updated data, unless this clone is actually a "reporting" database and not a Dev/Qa database.
Agreed.
This full refresh of the "development" database will kill all possible changes on backend code, new database objects as well as any changes to database objects. I do not think development team is re-applying all changes in a daily basis.