November 2006
Intermediate to advanced
1232 pages
34h 10m
English
Database Snapshots is a new feature introduced in SQL Server 2005 which enables you to take a point-in-time, read-only snapshot of a database. A database snapshot can be queried as if it were just another user database and can exist for as long as needed. When you’re done using it, the database snapshot can be deleted or restored back onto the source database.
Database Snapshots are in no way related to snapshot backups, snapshot replication, or the new snapshot transaction isolation level.
When a database snapshot is created, a view of a source database is captured as it exists at that point in time while eliminating any changes made by uncommitted transactions. Therefore, a database snapshot ...
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