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SQL Server 200: Setting Up Merge Replication

One of the best guide on Merge Replication (SQL Server 2000)

Source: Alexander Chigrik September 2001

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January 30, 2008 Posted by Philippe Almog | Replication | , , | 1 Comment

Database Mirroring Best Practices and Performance Considerations

Maximizing the availability of databases is on the top priority list for many database administrators worldwide. Database mirroring is a new feature in SQL Server 2005 that can help minimize planned and unplanned downtime, thereby maximizing the availability of the database. Database mirroring transports the changes in the production database to a mirror database, either synchronously or asynchronously. The mirror database can reside either in the same data center to provide a high-availability solution, or in a remote data center to provide a disaster-recovery solution. Business requirements such as service-level agreements and performance, as well as technical factors such as log generation rate, network throughput, and I/O throughput, influence the deployment of database mirroring. This paper discusses best practices and performance considerations for implementing database mirroring.

Source: Microsoft SQL Server Best Practices

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January 25, 2008 Posted by Philippe Almog | Replication | , , | No Comments Yet

Database Mirroring and Log Shipping Working Together

Log shipping and database mirroring can work together to provide solutions for high availability and disaster recovery. You can convert an existing log shipping configuration to a database mirroring configuration. Although Microsoft only supports a single mirror database, you can set up log shipping from a database mirroring pair to additional servers, to provide multiple failover sites. Moreover, you can easily switch which pair of instances is using database mirroring and which instances are configured with log shipping.

Source: Microsoft SQL Server Best Practices January 2008

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January 24, 2008 Posted by Philippe Almog | Replication | , , | No Comments Yet