June 2015
Intermediate to advanced
1800 pages
70h 6m
English
If what you really need is a true point-in-time reporting database from which you can run ad hoc or canned reports, often a database snapshot can serve this purpose much better than resorting to log shipping or data replication. One advantage of using a database snapshot for reporting purposes versus running reports against the primary database is that it avoids any locking contention issues between the report queries and the update transactions because the report queries are executed against a read-only, point-in-time copy of the source database.
However, key to determining when you can use this database snapshot technique is whether the database server instance can effectively support both the reporting ...
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