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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Q: We use a lot of distributed transactions and we are now investigating database mirroring to provide high availability to one of our critical databases. During our testing, we discovered that ...

I'm seeking help from the well of SQL Server gurus on this board. My question involves using replication in SQL Server 2000. First let me give you top level overview of what I'm been asked to ...

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 ...

Ok, so my boss wants me to find out about making some log files smaller. For example, one database has a data file that's about 50 MB, and the log file is about 550MB. He wants to clear up space and a ...