SP1 encompasses several new features, including database mirroring, in which the primary production server is mirrored at all times by a standby server.

As I understand it if you are using mirroring on SQL server and have failover setup you can adjust the connection strings of your applications that use it so they know the name of the other server ...

When SQL Server 2005 is released to manufacturing in the next few months, Microsoft will take the exceptional step of designating one of its high-profile features as being intended for evaluation only ...

SQL Server system databases are stored local, but the app databases are stored on SAN storage provided by a NetApp. The NetApp is doing an asynchronous mirror to it's counterpart.

Microsoft gave customers a status check on a range of SQL Server-oriented plans on Thursday, including the intention to ship the long-awaited database mirroring technology for SQL Server 2005 this ...