Good article,

Although I'd say this is perhaps a starting point for:

a) People who want to achieve what the SCD wizard does without the weight of the SCD implementation.

b) It's a...

Cool article - is it possible to implement a log shipping for the 2 Reporting Services databases, as a High Availablity story?

Could be the result of a bug MS recently fixed post sp3a? Here's the info:

FIX: Restoring transaction log files takes longer than expected in SQL Server...