Posted by Mike Epprecht \(SQL MVP\) on 07/11/05 07:07

Hi

Log shipping is the least intrusive as it requires no table changes.

Replication, IMHO, is a bad form of DR as you can not be guaranteed the time
lag between the primary and secondary being updated.

Regards
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Mike Epprecht, Microsoft SQL Server MVP
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"New MSSQL DBA" <boscong88@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> hi all, I am considering what should be the best way of implementing
> the following requirement.
>
> I've got a SQL2K production server. Now I've got another machine as the
> standby machine for this server
> so I'm thinking what method should I be using for this.
>
> Should I be using log shipping or Replication? Or if it's replication,
> what kind of replications
> should it be?
>
> I am thinking maybe snapshot replication can be just fine, right?
>

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