May 2010
Intermediate to advanced
815 pages
21h 55m
English
Database snapshots provide point-in-time data recovery and analysis. They do not provide for standby database access in that the original database must be available, as the data set is built partly from the snapshot files and partly from the original database files. This behavior will become clearer as you read through this section. Database snapshots are useful for recovering from data entry or data processing errors, and they are also beneficial for data reporting.
Database snapshots are created almost instantaneously. This is because the snapshot of the original database contains no data at its initial creation. Instead, SQL Server takes advantage of a technology known as sparse ...
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