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database-mirroring-and-database-snapshots-sql-server.md

You can take advantage of a mirror database that you are maintaining for availability purposes to offload reporting. To use a mirror database for reporting, you can create a database snapshot on the ...
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database-mirroring-sql-server.md

[!INCLUDEssNoteDepFutureAvoid] Use [!INCLUDEssHADR] instead. Database mirroring is a solution for increasing the availability of a [!INCLUDEssNoVersion] database. Mirroring is implemented on a ...
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Database Mirroring and FILESTREAM data not allowed – or is it?

In a previous blog entry, I talked about the new FILESTREAM data capability in SQL Server 2008 where we can store Binary Large Object (BLOB) data on the file system but have it transactionally part of ...
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Database Mirroring 2008 style

I have tested out Database Mirroring in SQL Server 2008, and on the surface it works much like SQL Server 2005 SP1. The user interface is almost identical. The pros and cons are still the same.