• Jose Ianuck (3/9/2009)


    so what impact does a database snapshot have on application transaction throughput and performance?

    Depends on your app, your hardware and the DB's usage. Could be anything from no impact to intolerable

    I did some tests a while back - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance/64080/

    Gail Shaw
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