Advantage of having a witness server in Database mirroring?

  • What is the advantage of having a witness server in Database mirroring?

    Do you need a witness server in order to have an automatic failover process?

    What sort of workload overhead results from being a witness server (is it likely to have an impact on the applications on that server)?

  • The advantage of having a witness is that it enables automatic fail-over

  • jabba (1/20/2009)


    What is the advantage of having a witness server in Database mirroring?

    Do you need a witness server in order to have an automatic failover process?

    What sort of workload overhead results from being a witness server (is it likely to have an impact on the applications on that server)?

    If you want automatic failover, you need a witness server. The workload of being a witness is next to nothing. You don't even need a "full" Sql Server version, SQL Express is sufficient.

    [font="Verdana"]Markus Bohse[/font]

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