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Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Unleashed
by Ray Rankins, Paul Bertucci, Chris Gallelli, Alex T. Silverstein
June 2015
Intermediate to advanced
1800 pages
70h 6m
English
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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 of the data file references must be accounted for in the snapshot. To get a list of all of the data files for a database, you can run the following query within the source database:
use AdventureWorks2012goselect name, physical_name from sys.database_fileswhere type_desc = 'ROWS'go
The data file allocations for this database returned by this query are as follows:
name physical_name------------------------ ------------------------------------------AdventureWorks2012_Data C:\MSSQL\Data\AdventureWorks2012_Data.mdf ...
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