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Someone educate me on the failover process Microsoft SQL Management Studio

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A little back story....

I had two servers, each running 2008 MSQL with 2 databases on each.

Server A was principle

Server B was the mirror

Domain Controller was the witness

Over the weekend some sort of crapshoot happened and Server A crashed. Someone the mirror broke and one of my databases was empty. I went to server B and initiated a failover on both databases, swapping server B's instance to primary on server 1.

This ended up fixing my problem of my other programs not being able to access my databases on server 1 and things started running smoothly again, however on Server B, in MSQL Management Studio, I no longer see my 2 databases.

What I see instead are Database snapshots (Mirror, Synchronized, Restoring)

The way things were set up before both of my databases were listed and were in the state of Mirror, Synchronized.

Can someone explain...


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