KB3208246 - Updates to DBCC CLONEDATABASE functionality in SQL Server 2014 and 2016

Applies To
SQL Server 2014 Developer - duplicate (do not use) SQL Server 2014 Enterprise - duplicate (do not use) SQL Server 2014 Enterprise Core - duplicate (do not use) SQL Server 2016 Developer - duplicate (do not use) SQL Server 2016 Enterprise - duplicate (do not use) SQL Server 2016 Enterprise Core - duplicate (do not use) SQL Server 2016 Standard - duplicate (do not use) SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1

Summary

This update adds the ability to clone Filestream, FileTable, and common language runtime (CLR) objects by using DBCC CLONEDATABASE (Transact-SQL) in SQL Server 2014 and 2016. This update also allows for cloning with NO_STATISTICS.

Resolution

This issue is fixed in the following cumulative updates for SQL Server:

Cumulative Update 2 for SQL Server 2016 SP1

Cumulative Update 3 for SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 2

About cumulative updates for SQL Server

Each new cumulative update for SQL Server contains all the hotfixes and all the security fixes that were included with the previous cumulative update. Check out the latest cumulative updates for SQL Server:

Latest cumulative update for SQL Server 2016

Latest cumulative update for SQL Server 2014

References

Learn about the DBCC CLONEDATABASE (Transact-SQL) command.

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