Home Forums SQL Server 2008 SQL Server 2008 High Availability database mirroring witness and client redirect RE: database mirroring witness and client redirect

  • May 1, 2013 at 9:29 am

    #1611607

    Something or someone has to tell the mirror database to take over as principal. The application does not do this. If you want SQL Server to automatically failover to the mirror database, you need the Witness. No witness, your only failover option is manual.