Reputation: 95
I have a problem that our production database is under heavy load. So we have decide that we setup a second SQL server running copy of production database that doesn't need to be 100% uptodate with production database.
After searching I have found that asynchronous mirroring of production database might do the trick. Mirror database would be only read-only for reports and stuff. So I managed to set it up, but have found out that I can't read any data from mirror database because it is in recovery mode.
No I would like to know if my problem is solvable with mirroring or we should use alternative?
Upvotes: 1
Views: 926
Reputation: 95
Thanks to Blim, we have decided for transaction replication. It works great on our development database (so it should in production too).
Step by step article: http://www.sql-server-performance.com/2010/transactional-replication-2008-r2/
Upvotes: 2