Wednesday, March 26, 2008  High Availability and MobiLink
Here's a recent article about using MobiLink with Hot Failover
(er, Database Mirroring, um, High Availability):  A High
Availability Data Synchronization Architecture, Joshua Savill,
March 4, 2008 This is an overview article, with some code
snippets and lots of extra study required if you're going to put
it into practice: Database synchronization is complex no matter
what software you use, and while it's a wonderful thing to add
High Availability at the central and/or remote sites, the
complexity just got more so.  As an overview, the article's
excellent. So it's not really fair for me to rant about one
single statement: That statement is lifted from the Help (not
the whole article, just that sentence), and it is actually
correct as written, sort of... if you're a lawyer and you're
reading it out of context.  First of all, you have to
"configure" or set up three software servers, not two: the
arbiter, the primary database, and the secondary database.