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Monday, July 30, 2007 10:09 PM

Do Both. Now with more pics.

In a previous post , I talked about how I was working on implementing mirroring inside the datacenter for high availability and log shipping between datacenters for disaster recovery. Well I wanted a reason to use my freshly installed live writer and
Posted by Michael Watson | 2 Comments
Monday, July 30, 2007 4:07 PM

BTW... High Availability/Disaster Recovery and SQL Licensing

If like me you are looking to eak (sp) every dollar of costs savings out of your deployments take a look at the SQL Server Pricing and Licensing paper at http://www.microsoft.com/sql/howtobuy/sqlserverlicensing.mspx . I'm not sure this is common knowledge
Posted by Michael Watson | 0 Comments
Sunday, July 29, 2007 11:00 AM

I love blog comments - SharePoint and SQL failovers.

I love blog comments. They keep you honest and earnest. In response to my blog post Database Mirroring and Log Shipping. Which is Better? Andrew Woodward noted that my post did not address the fact that SharePoint is not mirroring aware. While my intent
Posted by Michael Watson | 5 Comments
Sunday, July 29, 2007 10:31 AM

Database Mirroring vs Log Shipping. Choose Both?

In a response to my blog entry Database Mirroring and Log Shipping . Which is better? The mysterious Reed Me said: "Why not do both? One is HA. One is DR. It's a no-brainer. Do both." I totally agree. In fact, that is exactly what I've been working on
Posted by Michael Watson | 2 Comments
Saturday, July 28, 2007 1:51 AM

Database mirroring and log shipping. Which is better?

You may ask yourself and others this question all the time. I have heard the question a lot. The quick answer...it depends. I think both are great, however, your situation may make one more attractive than the other. Here's a quick list of the main benefits
Posted by Michael Watson | 13 Comments
 
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