Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Database maintenance (SQL Server 2000)

Could someone here clarify the difference between replication and mirroring?

What I want to do is to be able to make a back-up of my database to a different computer, what are the things I need to do? Is it replication or mirroring?

TIA

Are do you looking to develop a high availability solution for your database from a primary server to secondary server.

1. Database Mirroring (SQL 2005 SP1 only) allows real-time synchronous mirroring of the data.
2. Log Shipping allows mirroring of the log to a secondary machine
3. Replication (Merge & Transactional) allow alot more flexibility then the first two. They have a notion of a publisher and potentially many subscribers.

It is best to ask in the other (Mirroring or Replication) forums if you have more questions.

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