Dear All,
In case you are wondering, title of the post is not a typo 🙂 DBCC CloneDatabase is going to be available for SQL Server 2012 🙂
For folks who don't know, DBCC CloneDatabase is a feature introduced in SQL Server 2014 SP2 for creating a skeleton copy of the database. When I mean skeleton copy, I mean without the data but the exact schema, table structure, index, constraints, file and file groups and the best of all - table and index statistics. Using DBCC CloneDatabase, one can actually get a exact copy of the database ( including actual statistics ) but without the data. This is extremely useful in performance troubleshooting as one can clone a production database using DBCC CloneDatabase and backup the cloned database and restore to DEV / UAT to get estimated plans. SQL Server 2016 onwards Querystore's data and reports are also included to the cloned database. One can read more about DBCC CloneDatabase over here
Coming back to the title of the post, Microsoft product team will be extending DBCC CloneDatabase to SQL Server 2012 as a part of SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 4. SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 4 ( SP4 ) is due to be released in September 2017. A excellent move by product team to extend cloned database SQL Server 2012. Check out the official announcement of SP4 over here. More importantly, observe the comments section 🙂
In case you are wondering, title of the post is not a typo 🙂 DBCC CloneDatabase is going to be available for SQL Server 2012 🙂
For folks who don't know, DBCC CloneDatabase is a feature introduced in SQL Server 2014 SP2 for creating a skeleton copy of the database. When I mean skeleton copy, I mean without the data but the exact schema, table structure, index, constraints, file and file groups and the best of all - table and index statistics. Using DBCC CloneDatabase, one can actually get a exact copy of the database ( including actual statistics ) but without the data. This is extremely useful in performance troubleshooting as one can clone a production database using DBCC CloneDatabase and backup the cloned database and restore to DEV / UAT to get estimated plans. SQL Server 2016 onwards Querystore's data and reports are also included to the cloned database. One can read more about DBCC CloneDatabase over here
Coming back to the title of the post, Microsoft product team will be extending DBCC CloneDatabase to SQL Server 2012 as a part of SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 4. SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 4 ( SP4 ) is due to be released in September 2017. A excellent move by product team to extend cloned database SQL Server 2012. Check out the official announcement of SP4 over here. More importantly, observe the comments section 🙂
