MS Does Not Support the Mirroring Feature in 2005? 1

[JohnBates]

Hi all,

We have 2005 Standard.
I Wanted to use mirroring until I saw this. We have SP2 installed on all servers. Is mirroring still not supported because of ... ?

I found this in BOL's Configuring High Availablity section:

Database mirroring

Important:
Microsoft support policies do not apply to the database mirroring feature in SQL Server 2005. Database mirroring is currently disabled by default, but may be enabled for evaluation purposes only by using trace flag 1400 as a startup parameter. (For more information about trace flags, see Trace Flags (Transact-SQL).) Database mirroring should not be used in production environments, and Microsoft support services will not support databases or applications that use database mirroring. Database mirroring documentation is included in SQL Server 2005 for evaluation purposes only, and the Documentation Policy for SQL Server 2005 Support and Upgrade does not apply to the database mirroring documentation.

Please share your experiences if you have used it in production environment.

Tks, John

 

[mrdenny]

That is an old BOL entry. Mirroring went GA in SQL 2005 SP1. It was beta until then. If you update your BOL you should get the corrected information.

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