Tony Davis takes a ‘first look’ at cloning databases with SQL Clone, reviewing some of the database provisioning challenges that we seek to overcome, explaining briefly how SQL Clone works, and then walking through a simple example of creating a clone from a live database. Read more
If you guard against database corruption by restoring backups to secondary server, licensed as per production, and then running DBCC CHECKDB integrity checks, then you might save a lot of restore time, and disk space, by offloading this task to a clone. Read more
A step-by-step guide to creating an image from a database full backup, or from a full backup plus differential backup. Read more
Tony Davis shows how to get a database, plus any static data, into source control, and then uses the "/include:StaticData" switch in the SQL Compare Pro command line, fromPowerShell, to automate the process of creating a new build script. Read more
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