Tag Archives: high availability

The Institute for Backup Trauma

Posted on December 20, 2010 by way0utwest

This is an editorial reprinted from April 27, 2005. It’s viral marketing, but it’s not bad. Livevault produced a short video starring John Cleese as the director for this institute that seeks to counsel those that have had problems with … Continue reading →

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Multiple Mirrors

Posted on November 30, 2010 by way0utwest

Up through SQL Server 2008 R2 database mirroring has been limited to a single mirror for each database. While that does work well for many companies, as you become larger and more dependent on your computer systems, there is a … Continue reading →

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Database Mirroring Connection Strings – Automatic Failover

Posted on October 19, 2010 by way0utwest

I saw a post recently from Hugo Shebbeare that reminded me of something that I’ve seen asked often on the forums. One thing that I preach to people is that they should use their blog to show what they know, … Continue reading →

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Risk Analysis

Posted on October 15, 2010 by way0utwest

I saw a post recently that talked about disaster recovery being an important part of your company’s systems and that you needed to be sure that you could recover everything in the event of a disaster. That’s a common perception … Continue reading →

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