Query development Prod or Dev?

Should all query developments and changes be made in dev and then transported to prod?
Or can some development be done straight in Prod, i.e for quickness and accuracy of data testing of it is an urgently required report.
What are the best practices and pros and cons or query development in Prod?
Thanks

Hi Viswa:
I need some help for the questions given below;
I recently attended a telephonic interview with a company for SAP BW consultant role with 2 years exp,
I am learning SAP BW for nearly 3 months and i guess i have good knowledge in this subject (no experience though)
Please help me out with real time questions
they asked me
1.Wat was ur role as a BW consultant in your company/Brief me your responsibilities in your company?
I blabbered some thing like I was involved in Data extraction from R/3,Performance tuning,delta management,generating reports ect..
Please provide me with a good answer in the interview point of view with real time example.
2.Then they asked me "which data source in R/3 I used"?
3.Did U use any generic extractor? and any ABAP?Which ABAP View.
(I could not answer this question)
4.Then I said I generated various Reports,They asked Tell me wat r the reports I generated?And wat r all the elements did I use in the query.?
If possible provide we with ur contacts!
Could not answer.
Please help me out with these question.
I prepared with all interview question papers but Still I found very difficult to answer real time question.
Please guide me of wat r the topics (Like extraction,reporting etc) I should discuss with interviewer in the intro...so that I can answer well........
please I need your help!!!!!!

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