New whitepaper on database snapshots

Well, it was released a year ago but I only just found out about it last week. The SQL CAT team published a whitepaper last year called Database Snapshot Performance Considerations under I/O-Intensive Workloads. For a variety of workloads and with different numbers of concurrent database snapshots, it covers:

  • How much time does it take to create a database snapshot?
  • Transaction and I/O patterns during database snapshot creation
  • Transaction throughput and response time with multiple database snapshots
  • Impact of database snapshot on index creation
  • Restoring the source database from a database snapshot
  • Recommendations

Check it out at http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/9/4/d948f981-926e-40fa-a026-5bfcf076d9b9/DBSnapshotPerf.docx

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