A standard way to provide for database-server disaster recovery is to prepare a standby server — a secondary database-server computer that maintains a somewhat current version of your production ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Take advantage of the open source library Serilog to log your ASP.NET Core application’s data to SQL Server or another database target. Logging is an essential feature for any application, as it is ...

Help! My SQL Server Log File is too big!!! Your email has been sent Overgrown transactional log files can turn into real problems if they are not handled properly. Today SQL Server consultant Tim ...

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 ...