Have a question I'm hoping some MS SQL pro's can answer for me.
We have a primary database running MS SQL 2008 R2 that we need to backup in a high availability fashion. For a long time I was doing log shipping, but that seems to have stopped working for some reason. While I'm watching it for a week or so it works just fine. However at some point it stopped working. So I'm looking at other options.
I tried to setup Database mirroring and that looked like it worked, but I had some odd behaviors (ie: the principal/primary was not saying that it was connected to the mirror/secondary. The secondary/mirror was saying that everything was okay and it was connected to the primary/principal).
So I'm looking for some advice on what's the best way to get a fairly high availability setup? I need to have my data be at the most 1 hour out of date.
Thanks for your time,
