You would certainly use copies for backup and also for test purposes where you want to try out a new program without putting your operational data at risk.

您当然会使用副本作为备份，且在希望使用一个新程序而又不将操作数据置于风险中时将数据副本用作测试目的。

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Operational CRM processes customer data for a variety of purposes

运营式CRM处理客户数据的目的有很多

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"They're just doing their military preparedness and doing their operational exercises and it's for those air defense purposes, and anti-ship purposes.

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The row centres on an Ulster Unionist amendment which said the RUC would continue but the force would be known for "operational purposes" as the Police Service of Northern Ireland.

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But a related mission was to find out how best to explain the idea of operational intelligence, the idea of using machine data for business purposes.

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