SQL Server Clone Database to New Name
Cloning to a new name is feature-branch databases, integration test runs, and named post-mortem reproductions.
Cloning to a new name is feature-branch databases, integration test runs, and named post-mortem reproductions.
Cloning safely means masked at import, version-validated, and audit-logged — not just "finished without errors".
Backup–restore takes hours. Self-service cloning takes seconds. We measured both end-to-end on a representative production workload — here