We're setting up an 'Analysis' server area and am considering creating a 'copy' of a transactional db on this new server (along with several other dbs). So I'm researching possible solutions and seeking best practices. Looking for advice, thoughts, ideas...1) Could take weekly Full backups and nightly Differential backups and Restore them on the Analysis Server2) Could use replication3) Could use Log ShippingUltimately we would want this to be fully automated and it's fine if the Analysis DB is a day behind the DB being copied.This Analysis Server will not be used as part of a fail-over or backup strategy.(Should have included, we have a mix of 2010, 2012 and are moving to 2014 servers)
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