When you think about high availability in SQL Server then you would think about Clustering and in addition to this within 2005 version we have Database Mirroring too that can provide automated failover support to your database server applications. By default you can see a failover cluster as a combination...

You may be aware that Database Mirroring is an important High Availability [HA] option available within SQL Server 2005 version. Having this HA option within your Sharepoint farm where the databases are associated to failover, then you must note few issues that might crop up in this case. Also you should...

We had a need to setup Database Mirroring for a Disaster Recovery Project. We were at time running SQL 2005 Std SP1. i had to start the SQL Server Service with the startup parameter -T1400 to enable Mirroring. For DB Mirriring to work the SQL Server Service must be started using a domain account (normally...

The following pages were recently modified. Source: Knowledge Base Product: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition, SQL Server 2005 Enterprise X64 Edition & SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition Notification Contents: New and All Modifications FIX: Error message when you start a database mirroring...

The following pages were recently modified. Source: Knowledge Base Product: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise X64 Edition, SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition & SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition Notification Contents: New and All Modifications FIX: Transactions that are being committed on the principal...

Within a Database Mirroring session within an automatic failover situation it may fail with the error : "The server network address "%.*ls" can not be reached or does not exist. Check the network address name and reissue the command". If you suspect DNS as a culprit for failure to...