• Thanks for the article! It reminded me of an issue we encountered. If you happen to be using the JDBC driver with mirroring, there are problems with automatically connecting to the alternate server when using a non-standard port (the connection string does not allow you to specify a port for the failover server). More details here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/psssql/archive/2008/12/31/sql-2005-jdbc-driver-and-database-mirroring.aspx, and there is a report in MS Connect on the problem.