Log Shipping
If you have a small need to create a read-only (ad hoc query/reporting) database environment that can tolerate a high degree of data latency, you might be a candidate for using log shipping. Log shipping is still a feature for SQL Server 2008, but it will be deprecated by the next release. In other words, it might be easy to use and easy to manage, but it is being phased out as a feature of SQL Server. For this reason, we do not describe it in this book (it is described in detail in SQL Server 2000 Unleashed, though). For those who have current log shipping configurations, it is time to move to database mirroring. This transition will be easy because the two capabilities are so much alike. (Actually, many aspects of database mirroring ...
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