Configuring Database Mirroring by Using the Wizard

After you have the endpoints created, the roles established, the connections to the endpoints granted, and the mirror database restored on the mirror server, you could easily run through the final short steps in the Database Mirroring Wizard to enable and start mirroring. Figure 20.7 shows the Mirror option from the AdventureWorks database (reached by right-clicking the database name) from what will be the principal server. Because this database is not enabled for mirroring yet, you must run through the Configure Security option on the top portion of the Mirroring page (refer to Figure 20.6). At this point, you can probably see only the network server address of the principal server. Don’t worry; ...

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