Archiving/Snapshot of database data in SQL Server

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Hi,
I am looking for a functionality where I can take a snapshot or archive the specific set of data in database and whenever requried I need to go back to the archived state, how can I achieve this ? for more clarity on the need, below is the detail example.

I have a production server and test server, I have made some settings/configuration to my application in test server and updated the production server. Before updating the production server, I should archive/snapshot the data that is being updated, so that if something goes wrong in updating I should be able to go back to the previous state of data in production server.

Thanks in Advance.

Posted 12-Aug-13 22:53pm

Abhinayracha

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Mehdi Gholam · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-13T00:19:00

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Always backup your database first before doing anything destructive, see here for using snapshots : http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2010/04/05/sql-server-2008-introduction-to-snapshot-database-restore-from-snapshot/[^]

Posted 13-Aug-13 0:19am

Mehdi Gholam

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Abhinayracha 14-Aug-13 9:40am

Very informative thanks, I will try out this option.