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Database copy preview on Azure SQL Database Hyperscale

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denzilr
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Sep 21, 2020
Database copy provides a way to create a transactionally consistent snapshot of the source database as a new database on the same server or different server. It also enables copy across regions, subs...
Updated Sep 21, 2020
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Johannes_Vink
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Sep 21, 2020

Now it makes more sense 😉

 

Impressive to see that between 1 TB and 7.2 TB within the same region there is a very minor difference. That scales nicely.

 

A copy within the same region is the same as a backup operation, except that the backup selection can be historical and the copy is from the actual state of the database?