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Victor Kirkpatrick
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Posted Friday, December 03, 2010 5:51 AM
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The answer to this question is withOUT question: it depends. Are you talking of right-clicking in the object explorer to create one (not supported), or are you including the fact you can open up a t-sql window and create a snapshot???? Which one?! Well, the answer depends on knowing that, and the info is not given. Therefor, it depends is the correct answer, period.
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Posted Friday, December 03, 2010 5:57 AM
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Sorry, this is not a very good question. I got it right,
only
because I assumed that the writer of the QOD meant to infer that there is a wizard built in to do this. In this case, the answer is correct.
Unfortunately the method of creating a snapshot is not done with a wizard. Most people would open SSMS to run an adhoc SQL command which now makes the answer the opposite of what it is. I would not even agree to the third option, as you can in fact perform the task from within SSMS.
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Patrick2525
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Posted Friday, December 03, 2010 8:02 AM
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I agree with the others that this is not a good question, or the answer should be True. As others have pointed out that you can use T-Sql within SSMS. But you don't even need to use T-SQL...
Within SSMS, click on Replication -> Publications, right click -> New Publication, and follow the wizard for either a Merge or Snapshot replication, and a snapshot will be created! I'd say that SSMS supports that quite well since you don't even need to know any T-Sql!
:)
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Brandie Tarvin
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Patrick2525 (12/3/2010)
Within SSMS, click on Replication -> Publications, right click -> New Publication, and follow the wizard for either a Merge or Snapshot replication, and a snapshot will be created! I'd say that SSMS supports that quite well since you don't even need to know any T-Sql!
Don't get the two snapshots mixed up. Database Snapshots are not the same thing as Replication Snapshots.
Replication Snapshots are designed to create a base for publications and future replication activities. They don't even necessarily have to have all the data from a database to do this. Just the data that's published in publications and articles. You can't restore from a Replication Snapshot.
Database Snapshots are a sparse file. They designed to hold old data that has recently changed in your source database and they can be restored from. You can't replicate from a Database Snapshot.
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I wouldn't consider running T-SQL to be using SSMS. I know it technically does because there is no other editor, but I have felt when talking with people over the last few years that using SSMS means using a GUI, not T-SQL code.
However, I see how the "it depends" throws things off. So I have awarded back all points and changed the question to specifically mention using a GUI.
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Posted Friday, December 03, 2010 8:40 AM
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Looks like the true and false percentages are still showing the old numbers (True 46%, False 30%, It Depends 24%) even though the total number of correct answers shows 100%. Not that it really matters, just a little confusing.
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I didn't changed any answers, just marked them as correct, so it probably still shows the old percentages. Not sure what I want to do here, since I don't want to change what is the correct answer.
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Ok, I don't think anyone will lose sleep over it. Just wanted to bring it to your attention if it wasn't intended.
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Yup I'm one of the 2% who got it wrong.
Because I define SSMS as a GUI. It has menus and icons. Granted I open a big text window and type SQL commands into it and execute them, but it's still a GUI.
Which left me in the land of trying to psychoanalyze the qotd writer as to what his definition of a GUI was.
I guessed wrong.
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