Database Mirroring Administration
Database mirroring is a primarily software solution for increasing database availability. Mirroring is implemented on a per-database basis and works only with databases that use the full recovery model. The simple and bulk-logged recovery models do not support database mirroring. Database mirroring is supported in SQL Server Standard and Enterprise.
Database mirroring offers a substantial improvement in availability over the level previously possible using Microsoft SQL Server and provides an easy-to-manage alternative or supplement to failover clustering or log shipping. When a database mirroring session is synchronized, database mirroring provides a hot standby server that supports rapid failover with no loss of data from committed transactions. During a typical mirroring session, after a production server fails, client applications can recover quickly by reconnecting to the standby server.
Note
You cannot mirror the master, msdb, temp, or model databases.
In This Section
Pausing and Resuming Database Mirroring
Explains how to pause and resume a session using Transact-SQL.Removing Database Mirroring
Explains how to end a session using Transact-SQL.Managing Database Mirroring (SQL Server Management Studio)
Introduces database mirroring administration using SQL Server Management Studio, which provides a properties page for database mirroring and a wizard for configuring database mirroring security.Database Mirroring Administration How-to Topics (Database Engine)
Contains topics describing database mirroring.
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