Comments on: SQL 2005 Mirroring – Automatic Failover

By: Jacob Jespersen

Jacob Jespersen — Mon, 17 May 2010 07:16:38 +0000

Hmm I was looking for this exact script, but it fails: Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Line 1
Incorrect syntax near ‘<'.

By: Brad Marsh

Brad Marsh — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:32:49 +0000

this sounds like a drastic measure, could you not kill the connections from the tempDB (at an apporpriate time of course) and then shrink the mdf?
Or does a scheduled shrink not work at all?
If you are using a third party witness you could disable it if its not a production SQL server, this will prevent the failover from happening.

By: Sharon Barnard

Sharon Barnard — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:13:31 +0000

Do you know of a way to schedule an automatic failover? Our TEMPDB.MDF keeps growing and ultimately taking up all of the disk space on the disk it’s on so we need to restart the SQL server service to purge that DB. Unfortunately, when we do this, it causes a database failover to the mirror server. Is there a way to add that failover to a batch job that will stop/start the SQL server service?

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Handy SQL Server script for logins « Nothing and Everything — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:51:21 +0000

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By: bradmarsh

bradmarsh — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:04:50 +0000

brek the mirror then run the script, then re-mirror, that should fix it.

By: Corey Henderson

Corey Henderson — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:31:26 +0000

Ah, thanks. This is exactly the problem we were having. I’m able to generate the command to add the login to the mirror, but it does not complete because it says the database cannot be opened “it is acting as a mirror database”

What can I do?

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