database mirroring -- failing over in stored procedures

If I have a stored procedure that accesses two databases, both
databases are on server#1 (primary) and server#2 (backup)
if database #1 fails over to server#2, what is my stored procedure
going to do?
SET @.value = SELECT FirstName FROM [nameofserver].databaseA.table
How do i configure my stored procedure so that it is intelligent
enough to recognize that databaseA has failed over and it knows to go
to server#2'This is why DBMirroring is not recommended for applications which access
multiple databases concurrently.
It's important to keep in mind that DBMirroring is a database level
technology & therefore problems like yours really can't be solved fully..
Regards,
Greg Linwood
SQL Server MVP
http://blogs.sqlserver.org.au/blogs/greg_linwood
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> If I have a stored procedure that accesses two databases, both
> databases are on server#1 (primary) and server#2 (backup)
> if database #1 fails over to server#2, what is my stored procedure
> going to do?
> SET @.value = SELECT FirstName FROM [nameofserver].databaseA.table
>
> How do i configure my stored procedure so that it is intelligent
> enough to recognize that databaseA has failed over and it knows to go
> to server#2'
>|||I have decided to have all databases on one server merged into one
database so i can do mirroring.
but i still see a potential problem ... if i have a stored procedure
on a linked server that points to my singular database on a primary
mirror server, what happens when it fails over?
how is the stored procedure going to know where the backup database
is? i am sure this must be addressed somewhere? of course, this
problem still exists today without the mirrored database. but since
we are on the subject of high availability, how can a SP be highly
available if it can not failover to a different database? i am
thinking there must be some setting for linked servers whereby ("if
linked server A is offline, use B") but i can not find this?
otherwise it seems you can not access a mirrored database through a
linked server because that linked server might be gone? and if that
linked server is "offline" how does a SP know to go to the backup
server? this is easily solved with most connections because you
specify in the connection string a primary/failover server, but how to
do this in a SP?
On Apr 12, 7:42 pm, "Greg Linwood" <g_linw...@.hotmail.com> wrote:
> This is why DBMirroring is not recommended for applications which access
> multiple databases concurrently.
> It's important to keep in mind that DBMirroring is a database level
> technology & therefore problems like yours really can't be solved fully..
> Regards,
> Greg LinwoodSQLServerMVPhttp://blogs.sqlserver.org.au/blogs/greg_linwood
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