The most important aspect in Log Shipping is Failover. Lets discuss it detail ! ! ! If the primary server in Log Shipping becomes unavailable or if it is going to be down due to some manual intervention, DBA should immediately perform the following steps for failover.
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Prerequisites for Log Shipping
The following are the prerequisites to configure Log Shipping SQL 2005 1. SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition, SQL Server 2005 Workgroup Edition, or SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition must be installed on all server instances involved in log shipping. 2. The servers involved in log shipping should have the same case sensitivity settings.
Role Change in SQL 2005 Log Shipping
In SQL 2000 where the role change was relatively easy through the use of stored procedures, unfortunately in SQL 2005 those SPs are no longer used and we have to perform the following steps to sync the secondary server with primary and then failover.
What is Log Shipping
Log Shipping is one of the methods for creating a Standby server, by god forbidden if something happens to our production server we need a standby server and Microsoft has come up with this idea and introduced Log Shipping in SQL 2000 itself. But in SQL 2005 it has been enhanced further by making it… Continue reading What is Log Shipping
Log shipping – Sql2005
Log shipping allows you to automatically send transaction log backups from one database (known as the primary database) to a secondary database on another server (known as the secondary server). At the secondary server, these transaction log backups are restored to the secondary database, keeping it closely synchronized with the primary database. An optional third… Continue reading Log shipping – Sql2005