Brian Kelley

Brian Kelley is an author, columnist, and Microsoft SQL Server MVP focusing primarily on SQL Server security. He is a contributing author for How to Cheat at Securing SQL Server 2005 (Syngress), Professional SQL Server 2008 Administration (Wrox), and Introduction to SQL Server (Texas Publishing). Brian currently serves as an infrastructure and security architect. He has also served as a senior Microsoft SQL Server DBA, database architect, developer, and incident response team lead.
  • Interests: Chess, Reading, Soccer (Football), Baseball, Animals, Theology

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The Cloned Database Size

I have a small test sandbox database on an instance with default master, model, msdb, and tempdb settings. The database has these files:database file propertiesI now run this command:

DBCC CLONEDATABASE(sandbox, sandbox_clone);
GO
When I examine the database file properties, what do they show?

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