I ran into an interesting situation this morning. I got alerts for each of my mirrored databases that they had entered the “Synchronizing Principal” state. (I wrote about how to set up these alerts here.) These alerts were sent from the principal server. There were no alerts from the mirror server, which should have happened […]
I’ve already admitted I’m a fan of pop music. In particular, Eighties pop music holds a dear spot in my heart. I’ve spent the last week working with database mirroring and I’ve had this Human League song going through my head the whole time. Ah, the 80s.. Such music.. Moving along… Last week, I wrote […]
Last week, I spent some time testing database mirroring as part of our disaster recovery strategy. I have to say, I am very impressed with the concept. It was incredibly easy to set up and worked like a charm. It is so much easier than log shipping or replication. And mirroring failovers are faster than […]