September 2010
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From the SSMS, you can easily fail over from the principal to the mirror server instance (and back again) by using the Failover button on the Database Properties Mirroring page, as shown in Figure 20.23.
Figure 20.23 Testing failover of a mirrored database.

You must test this failover at some point to guarantee that it works. When you click the Failover button for this database mirroring configuration, you are prompted to continue with the failover by clicking Yes or No, as in the dialog shown in Figure 20.24.
Figure 20.24 The failover message for database mirroring.
Remember that clicking Yes ...