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 ...

There's no reason why your database *needs* to be stuck in read-only. I think there is, in order for this 3rd party database restore tool to work correctly. It might be a different story if we could ...

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 ...