You are welcome, but send Paul Randal (www.sqlskills.com) a note of thanks. He sent me the link.

There's a whole section in BOL on high availability that covers the ways SQL Server handles this.

The article updates have been republished out.

You cannot mirror two ways. Only from DB1 -> DB2. You could log ship to DB3, which would work. See this (http://bit.ly/bXsbz6)

Publisher doesn't make sense in database mirroring

Reflector confusion: OK, I heard back from the PMs for Reflector. The expiration code is not something Red Gate added. Lutz added this to reduce support issues. A blog on...

Separate from a maintenance plan, but still running regularly, I have included these items:

- scan of backup files. Gather size, compare to previous size. If > 20% larger, raise a...

I'm confused. You say you have database mirroring, but also a publisher? Are you running replication as well and looking to get that in a DR situation?

It would help if...

Any more details on how you did that? It's an intersting idea. All my queries of MSFT/MVPs say that you can't change this in SSMS.

First, no one here is named master. I realize that might be confusing, but everyone posting has a separate name. It's a little rude not to refer to someone by...

I'll have to check. I'd think they are, but I'm not sure.

Jeff Moden (2/3/2010)

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Heh... shoot... why would I want to do that? I see them too much as it is. If you want productivity to go up, just stop...

Didn't realize that the free version would expire. I agree with you that you should be able to continue using that version forever.

Microsoft does expire their betas, which I understand,...

It's up to someone to run the events in a city. Jeff, if you can find a few people to help organize one in Detroit, it's not that hard to...

golf clap?

Actually we celebrated early. I took Jack to lunch at the PASS Summit. Congrats, Jack!

There are MYSQL links there, but not SQL Server that I see. I would not consider those PHP tutorials the place to learn about SQL Server.