Hi,

Thanks for your comments, we are unable to use any third pary comparison tools, firsty due to the client not allowing this, and secondly due to the fact there isn't...

Got you, thanks very much.

Thanks for your comments guys, it's much appreciated.

You all seem to be pointing towards looking at the log file sizes to get a rough estimate. Can someone expand on...

Thanks for your comments Colin. The proposed pipe size is 1GB, and Microsoft are heavily involved in the project and have gauranteed that it will work.

The main reasoning behind...

Thanks for your comments, much appreciated.

Hi guys,

Thanks for replying to my post.  I will be using a compression tool, and will be moving the database backups in smaller chunks.

Could you please help me with the...

Thanks for that Deepak, I will use your guide to install, and I will provide feedback upon completion.

Thanks again.

Thanks for that Markus.  The SQL Server instances are already clustered.  The SQL Mirroring option is for DR and will move data from data centre #1 to data centre #2...

Thanks guys for your help, much appreciated.

Hi,

The sentance does state "the database must be in the synchronized mirroring state.", the bit I am interested in is the "in the synchronized mirroring state".  I thought there were...

Hi,

How good would the connection need to be?  There are 50 databases with a total size of 140GB?

Thanks.

I've found the link:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175511.aspx

The last sentance in the first paragraph states:

"To create a database snapshot on a mirror database, the database must be in the synchronized mirroring state."

Does this...

Hi,

Thanks for that, I do understand the different recovery model options and what each option entails, however, I am unsure as to how I can forecast what the level of...

Thanks guys for all your comments and suggestions, it's greatly appreciated.

EdVassie can you email me a copy of the scripts/documentation? I've dropped you...

As well as the information above my client is also looking for a monitoring and support contract for the SQL Server environment and I was wondering if anyone can recommend...