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Log Shipping in SQL Server has been around for a while and still provides an easy method for redundancy and load balancing. It uses standard backup and restore technology to ship backups to a standby ...

We've had SQL 2005 mirroring running successfully for a while now, but the issue I have is our applications reference the primary server by name directly and when the mirror fails over to box #2 I'm ...

I'm a sysadmin but nothing to do with DB's, we have DBA's for that. I want to automate windows security patches for our servers and when I get to this pair or mirrored SQL db servers, my DBA doesn't ...

The solution needed to be compatible with Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition, affordable and easy to implement. It also needed to guarantee 100 percent uptime. Engineers first looked into ...