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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Transaction logs are a vital yet often overlooked component of database architecture. They are often forgotten because they are not something actively maintained like the schema contained within a ...

This week, I again had the opportunity to be on the Virtumania podcast with Rich Brambley, Marc Farley and a special SQL server guest, http://www.brentozar.com/ Brent ...

Delayed durability was announced late in the SQL Server 2014 development cycle, but offers something that many SQL Server professionals have wanted for years—the ability to disable transaction logging ...

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 ...

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 ...