December 2013
Intermediate to advanced
1872 pages
153h 31m
English
book
Microsoft® SQL Server 2012 Unleashed
by Ray Rankins, Paul T. Bertucci, Chris Gallelli, Alex T. Silverstein
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Creating a Database Snapshot
One of the first things you must figure out before you create a database snapshot is whether your source database data portion has more than one physical file in its allocation. All these file references must be accounted for in the snapshot. You execute the system stored procedure sp_helpdb with the source database name as the parameter, as shown here:
EXEC SP_HELPDB AdventureWorks2012Go
The detailed file allocations of this database are as follows:
name fileid filename------------------------ ------ --------------------------------------------AdventureWorks2012_Data 1 D:\sql2012\data\AdventureWorks2012_Data.mdfAdventureWorks2012_Log 2 ...