Microsoft® SQL Server 2008 R2 Unleashed
by Ray Rankins, Paul Bertucci, Chris Gallelli, Alex T. Silverstein
What’s New with Database Snapshots
With SQL Server 2005, everything about database snapshots was new because this was a completely new feature for SQL Server. With SQL Server 2008, there is little new to this feature other than under-the-cover improvements to the copy-on-write mechanisms and three more years of production implementations under their belt. One hundred percent of the SQL code you have set up for creating and managing snapshots will work perfectly with SQL Server 2008. No upgrade pain here.
Database snapshots have solved many companies’ reporting, data safeguarding, and performance issues and directly contributed to higher availability across the board. Be aware, though, there are plenty of restrictions with doing database snapshots. ...
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