So you decided to set up log shipping in order to establish a failover server, but what's next? Log shipping only takes care of keeping a user database in sync from one server to the other. In the ...

For our new production environment, we're going to be using SQL 2005 and do log shipping from our main machine to a secondary machine. Part of this environment will include a migration process, which ...

SQL Server 2005 also promises better performance. I didn’t run performance benchmarks for this review, but in addition to allowing DBAs to partition the database to balance load, Microsoft has done a ...

Log Shipping in SQL Server has been around for a while and still provides an easy method for redundancy and load balancing. It uses standard backup and restore technology to ship backups to a standby ...

I'm looking for some insight into implementing replication with a SQL 2005 Standard database based on our needs as well as the fact that one major replication type is deprecated in SQL 2012 and ...

One configures SQL Server for high availability (HA) in anticipation of some event that will cause a critical application to go offline unexpectedly—a software glitch that causes an app to freeze or a ...

While SQL Server 2008 was little more than a service-pack level upgrade, the 2012 version of Microsoft’s database has a boatload of new features and delivers solid performance improvements.