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Creating Database Snapshot

Written by Deepak. Posted in DBA

One of the exasperating things while creating a snapshot is that you cannot use SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) instead you need to make use of T-SQL. I am creating a snapshot of the database Deepak as follows,

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How to Delete a Database Snapshot

Written by Deepak. Posted in DBA

You cannot drop a database before dropping the snapshot created for the database. Now I have dropped the snapshot Deepak_snapshot_2030 created for the db Deepak. Refer the figure below illustrating how to drop a database snapshot,.

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Restoring from Database Snapshot

Written by Deepak. Posted in DBA

Assume you had dropped some records from your database but prior to dropping it you have taken a snapshot of you db, so the snapshots come handy in such scenarios. You can restore back the records from this snapshot as shown in the below figure,

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Recent Comments

Amit Bhatt

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Hi Deepak,

Thanks for such a nice article.

You missed one thing to add in code:
@article = ‘all’,

Hence the script will be like this:
EXEC sp_addsubscription
@publication = ‘mypublication’,
@article = ‘ALL’,
@subscriber = ‘Subscriberservername’,
@destination_db = ‘mydestinationdbname’,
@reserved=’Internal’

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VidhyaSagar

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Naveen,
I’ll check this out and get back to you.

balakiran

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Thanks man, Very simple & easy to understand !!!!