3 Log Shipping Techniques

Recent SQL Server releases have had a major focus on high availability. Early previews of the next release of SQL Server, code-named Denali, show that this trend will continue. Somewhere in the midst of the new availability technologies and feature sets, log shipping seems to have fallen by the wayside. Although log shipping received a much-needed face lift with SQL Server 2005, there were only minor enhancements in SQL Server 2008. Although log shipping isn’t as widely used as it once was, it’...