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Deploy preview environments lack isolated database branches causing shared-state conflicts

Development teams using deploy previews for PR review face a chronic problem: all previews share a single database, meaning test data bleeds across environments and migrations can break other in-progress previews. Netlify Database addresses this with automatic per-branch PostgreSQL instances. The underlying pain is significant for any team doing iterative schema changes in parallel.

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