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what is snapshot

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Last Update: September 15, 2007 Asked by: ravi

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July 01, 2006 18:03:11

Ranga

RE: what is snapshot

snapshot is nothing but a real image of the database

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July 24, 2006 11:33:20

sunnyrita1

Member Since: July 2006 Contribution: 6

RE: what is snapshot

A Snapshot is the copy of data, when we create a snapshot it copies the exact data that's related to the at perticular report, we use snapshot when ever we want to compare reports(ex we want to compare this months report with previous months)

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November 29, 2006 02:34:35

shekar

RE: what is snapshot

snapshot is a static datasource, it is a picture of of report,once u created a snapshot report u can't add a data item(coloum).

we can perform some operations like run,view,grouping..

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September 15, 2007 13:46:43

phanii

RE: what is snapshot

Snapshot is the permanent local copy of the data in your report.

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