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Database Snapshots – Part 1 – An Introduction

Let’s say you support the database for a financial system, and periodically, whether it be monthly, quarterly, or yearly, they close out the period and run a bunch of reports before they let users back...

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Database Snapshots – Part 2 – Offload reporting

So now that we know a little bit about database snapshots in SQL Server, what else are they good for?  One thing you can do is use snapshots in conjunction with database mirroring to offload reporting...

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Database Snapshots – Part 3 – Data Recovery

In this final part of our series on SQL Server database snapshots, I’m going to talk about what, I think, is the most forgotten feature/use of snapshots:  data recovery.  If you (or ‘a friend’) makes a...

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