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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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...
View ArticleDatabase 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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