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SQL 2005 Snapshot Security

In SQL Server 2005, a snapshot of a database can be created that allows read-only access to a database, even when the database is in "recovery pending" mode. One use case for this capability is in creating a reporting database that references a copy of a production database, which is kept current through log-shipping. In this scen...

Nightly importable or attachable copies of production database

We would like to be able to nightly make a copy/backup/snapshot of a production database so that we can import it in the dev environment. We don't want to log ship to the dev environment because it needs to be something we can reset whenever we like to the last taken copy of the production database. We need to be able to clear certain...

MS-SQL Server 2005: Initializing a merge subscription with alternate snapshot location

We started some overseas merge replication 1 year ago and everything is going fine till now. My problem is that we have now so much data in our system that any crash on one of the subscriber's servers will be a disaster: reinitialising a subscription the standard way will take days (our connexions are definitely slow, but already very ve...

How would I go about taking a snapshot of a process to preserve its state for future investigation? Is this possible?

Whether this is possible I don't know, but it would mighty useful! I have a process that fails periodically (running in Windows 2000). I then have just one chance to react to it before having to restart it and painfully wait for it to fail again. I didn't write the process so don't have the source to debug. The failure is seemingly rand...

Using ASP.Net, is there a programmatic way to take a screenshot of the browser content?

I have an ASP.Net application which as desired feature, users would like to be able to take a "snapshot". While I know this can be simulated, it would be really great to have a way to take a URL (or the current rendered page), and turn it into an image which can be stored on the server. Is this crazy? Is there a way to do it? If so, ...

how to release a project which depends on a 3rd party SNAPSHOT project in maven

i would like to release a snapshot project 'foo-1.0-SNAPSHOT' using the maven release plugin. The project depends on a 3rd party module 'bar-1.0-SNAPSHOT' which is not released yet. I use the option 'allowTimestampedSnapshots' in my project's pom.xml to allow timestamped snapshots but i assume that the 3rd party module (bar) is not times...

HTML Snapshot

Using asp.net, I need to generate a snapshot of an youtube video. I have access to the code that youtube generates for integrating their vids into other sites. Basically what I want to do is what HTML Snapshot does, take a picture of some html, but I`m only interested in the video. How can I approach this in asp.net, (buying HTML Snaps...

Snapshot Repository v/s Release Repository

This is a newbie Q, but What is the difference between a Snapshot Repository v/s Release Repository? This is with reference to setting up Repositories (like Artifactory, Nexus etc) ...

Take snapshot of view / WebView programmatically

Hello, I want to take a snapshot of a view (WebView) or, if that is not possible, the whole screen, so I can save it into the user's photo gallery. I was wondering if this is possible. Thank you very much, Isaac Waller http://www.isaacwaller.com/ ...

SQL Server: Snapshot transaction problem with synonyms in Express Edition

We have 2 databases, say DB1 and DB2. DB1 contains all the stored procedures which access also data in DB2. DB1 uses synonyms to access the tables in DB2. (Using synonyms is a requirement in our situation) This works perfectly fine in all situations with SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition. However in the Express Edition, we get an excep...

Git : How to get a snapshot of a git repository

I'm looking for the right way to get an archive of a git repository without the .git/ directory in order to send a daily snapshot to testers. ...

When I create views from Clearcase explorer, both development and the integration views get created as snapshot.

I do not get the option at all to choose for the views to be snapshot or dynamic. What I would want is the development view to be snapshot and the integration view to be dynamic. Why is it that I am not prompted to let me choose my views to be snapshot/dynamic? ...

Taking a snapshot from the command prompt for Hyper-V 2008.

Background: I am using Hyper-V on Server 2008 to manage many virtual servers. I have scripts that have been built to make changes or apply updates to some or all of these virtual servers. Using the Hyper-V Manager, I am able to snapshot these virtual servers prior to doing an update, then roll back the changes if there is a problem. ...

Create NEW database from Snapshot (SQL Server 2005)

I'm using SQL Server 2005. I've created a snapshot of database (RM_DB), I want to create (RM_DB_NEW) from that snapshot. The only option i get when I right-click on my snapshot is "Restore [RM_DB] from this snapshot". Can I create a NEW database from my snapshot? EDIT I'm not interested in creating a backup out of the snapshot, this w...

Mount LVM overlays/snapshots?

Dear lazyweb, I'm trying to mount a disk image created with the Fedora LiveUSB creator under Ubuntu programmatically, and I'm encountering some issues. From what I've been told, it's very difficult to mount LVM snapshots outside of the host system. I have both the "pristine" image and the persistent snapshot, so I thought that it shou...

Snapshot website over time

I'm a developer for a marketing team and one of the features that often gets requested is: Can we go back to see what our site (or what X page) looked like back in X. Are there any good solutions for solving for this request? ...

Snapshot Movies

I'm currently learning Python and have taken up several small projects to help learn the language. Are there currently any libraries (possibly PythonMagick) out there that are capable of extracting snapshots from .wmv, .avi, .mpg, or other movie formats with only command-line options (no GUI)? And if so, can anyone provide links to exa...

Unable to update snapshots or run the install goal with Maven

Does anyone have an idea how to resolve this Maven error? I get the following when I attempt to update my project's snapshots: Build errors for my-projects-name; org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: Internal error in the plugin manager executing goal 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin:2.0:u...

In SQL Server 2005, can I take multiple db snapshots at the same time?

We're setting up K2 and it requires that several databases be snapshoted before being backed up so that they are at the exact same point in time. Can I do this and how? There are a total of 14 databases that need backed up. ...

Xcode : Recover complete project from snapshot ?

Hello today I am playing a bit with the Xcode snapshot feature and I wonder if I could recreate a complete project from a snapshot if all code is lost. It seems to me in the Snapshot-Manager I can only see snapshots of the current project, not of all projects. So if my projectfile is lost or damaged is there anyway to recover my files ...