Month October 2018

Windows Server

Manually failover all databases in an SQL Server Database Mirroring configuration

A manual SQL Server failover can only be initiated from the principal server, and the mirrored database must be synchronized (that is, when the database is in the SYNCHRONIZED state). In this article I will show you how to manual failover mirrored SQL Server databases using Transact-SQL (T-SQL) in SQL Server 2017 and up.

Jan Reilink
2018-10-25
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ASP and ASP.NET connectionstring examples for Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL

A connectionstring is sometimes a bit obscure. Do I need ODBC or OLE DB? When you need one and Google for it, you often find old ones that either don't work at all anymore, or are not optimal. This article provides you with a couple of ASP.NET to SQL Server connectionstring examples, and as a bonus for ASP to MySQL too.