Tom Brown (11/15/2011)
As I understand it - correct me if I'm wrong, its a very recent copy of the DB - but its read-only, so you can run queries in almost real time, without any of the production locks - or is that replication?
That's a database snapshot. Nothing to do with snapshot isolation (other than in the unfortunate naming)
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