Create a Database Snapshot

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The only way to create a SQL Server database snapshot is to use Transact-SQL. SQL Server Management Studio does not support the creation of database snapshots.

The source database, which can use any recovery model, must meet the following prerequisites:
  • The server instance must be running an edition of SQL Server that supports database snapshot. For information about support for database snapshots in SQL Server 2017.
  • The source database must be online, unless the database is a mirror database within a database mirroring session.
  • To create a database snapshot on a mirror database, the database must be in the synchronized mirroring state.
  • The source database cannot be configured as a scalable shared database.
  • The source database must not contain a MEMORY_OPTIMIZED_DATA filegroup.

Syntax:
CREATE DATABASE database_snapshot_name
ON
(
NAME =logical_file_name,
FILENAME ='os_file_name'
) [ ,...n ]
AS SNAPSHOT OF source_database_name;

Example:
create database AdventureWorks2014_Snapshot on
( NAME = AdventureWorks2014_Data, FILENAME =  
'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL13.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\Data\AdventureWorks2014_data_1800.ss' ) 
AS SNAPSHOT OF AdventureWorks2014; 
GO 

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