SQL Clone Quick Tip: Offloading DBCC checks
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 moreHow Redgate use SQL Clone internally to provision databases
An Interview with the Redgate IT Manager to discover how SQL Provision is being used to implement a new database provisioning process. Read moreDatabase provisioning from backups using SQL Clone
A step-by-step guide to creating an image from a database full backup, or from a full backup plus differential backup. Read moreBringing DevOps to the database – Moody’s Analytics and SQL Clone
Moody's Analytics had a constant need to provision database copies, particularly for the Test Engineers who needed to run multiple daily database integration and acceptance tests. SQL Clone reduced the time taken to deploy a database copy to minutes, instead of hours. Read more
Protecting production data in non-production environments
Grant Fritchey discusses the need to ‘shift left’ the database and associated database testing, while keeping sensitive data secure when it is outside the production environment, and how SQL Provision can help you achieve this. Read moreNew permissions features brings access control to SQL Clone
SQL Clone permissions give you simple control over who can access SQL Clone, and what they can do with it. Read more
Basic data masking for development work using SQL Clone and SQL Data Generator
Richard Macaskill describes a lightweight copy-and-generate approach for making a sanitized database build available to development teams, using SQL Clone, SQL Change Automation and SQL Data Generator. Read moreUsing striped backups with SQL Clone
Can we use a striped backup as the source for a SQL Clone image? Yes we can! Read moreWhy is my clone so small?
How is it possible that the cloned databases could be so small and lightweight, and yet behave exactly like any normal database, complete with all the data? It sounds like magic, but it's not. It simply makes clever use of native Windows virtualization technology. Read moreRedgate Hub
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