Tag Archives: high availability

You Need Two SLAs for Disaster Recovery

Posted on January 18, 2011 by way0utwest

Continuing on with my MCM prep, I was listening to the High Availability/DR prep module today and I was once again surprised by something. Typically I have heard all kinds of talk for SLAs, usually in terms of network traffic. … Continue reading →

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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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