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When SQL Server 2005 is released to manufacturing in the next few months, Microsoft will take the exceptional step of designating one of its high-profile features as being intended for evaluation only ...

Mirror, Mirror on the Database Microsoft has introduced a new failover technology in SQL 2005, known as Database Mirroring. Database Mirroring has been included in the RTM release of SQL Server 2005 ...

Without using any special hardware, it allows you to duplicate (real time mirroring) a production database on another SQL Server at a different location. In addition, if the first server should become ...

In SQL Server Database Mirroring, the quorum is 2 out of 3. For high-safety mode with automatic failover, commonly called “High Availability” mode, quorum makes sure that a database is owned by only ...

As we’ve come to expect from new SQL Server releases, SQL Server 2012 has so many new features that it’s impossible even to mention them all. Nearly everyone is well served, from the BI-hungry users ...