Methods and procedures to provide complete test copy environment of hosted applications

Systems and methods that create a duplicate database instance on which database testing may be performed. The techniques for creating a test database instance enable database testing to proceed without impacting other organization's access to their data in the database or corrupting an organization's data. The ability to allow one organization ("org") to test their portion of a database without interrupting other organizations from using their portions of the database enables a database system to support more than one organization as tenants.