Answer by sp_lock
Just looking into snapshots myself in more detail and when I came across an article "i thought of you"!This explains why it is possible for the sparse file/snapshot to be greater that the...
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Drop snapshot then create it again!What is the isolation of the snapshot!? Any lockable transaction can do something like that but I'm not sure 100%.Interesting case, Steve!
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The only way a snapshot can be larger than the associated database is if the associated database has had data deleted and then been shrunk.For example, start with a database, DB, with 8GB data. Create...
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I think you have a valid point in your answer sp_lock, and I am trying to develop your answer a little bit.Quoute from sp_locks url:Sparse files grow in 64-kilobyte (KB) increments; thus, the size of a...
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Håkan,A snapshot can only be larger than the source database in the one circumstance I described in my previous answer.Although it is true that sparse files grow in 64KB increments, this is exactly the...
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