Survey: do you use database snapshots?

As I was writing a quick SQL Server Magazine blog post on database snapshots while waiting for my coffee to brew, I figured it would make an interesting survey to see whether people are making use of database snapshots at all. I don’t expect to see much activity on this until tomorrow as it’s July 4th here in the USA.

Note: As Books Online says: don’t get database snapshots confused with snapshot isolation, snapshot replication, or snapshot backups.

I’ll report on the results in a few weeks or so.

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