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SQL Clone Works with FILESTREAM

Posted on August 12, 2020 by way0utwest

SQL Clone is an amazing product that virtualizes your data, allowing multiple instances to share a read only image, but still produce writeable databases that look normal to SQL Server. It’s similar to how a container appears to a user, … Continue reading →

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Creating a SQL Clone Agent and a First Image

Posted on August 6, 2020 by way0utwest

In a previous post, I set up the SQL Clone server. This is really a metadata store and web front end, but it does no real work. The Agent service, which is installed on each SQL Server instance that will … Continue reading →

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Unboxing SQL Clone 2020 for a PoC

Posted on August 4, 2020 by way0utwest

When I got a new machine, I had SQL Clone on my old machine, in a few VMWare VMs. I decided to move this to my new machine, so that I can more easily demo things. I also want this … Continue reading →

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Color Coding a Database on All Servers with SQL Prompt

Posted on July 22, 2020 by way0utwest

SQL Prompt has some nice color coding features, but sometimes I want a database to keep the same color, regardless of instance. I don’t know that I’d recommend this, but since I work in demo environments across versions, this is … Continue reading →

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