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 ...

BANGALORE, INDIA: Your users expect your systems will stay up as much as possible. This would be in the face of unexpected events such as system failures as well as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...