{"id":1790,"date":"2012-03-22T16:00:49","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T23:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmman.itgroove.net\/2012\/03\/some-databases-are-too-ugly-for-the-mirror\/"},"modified":"2023-02-24T21:47:05","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T21:47:05","slug":"some-databases-are-too-ugly-for-the-mirror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regroove.ca\/archive\/2012\/03\/22\/some-databases-are-too-ugly-for-the-mirror\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Databases are Too Ugly for the Mirror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time to engage mirroring on your SharePoint databases?&#160; Woah\u2026 slow down there horsey!&#160; There\u2019s a few things you should know before you just blindly setup mirroring on all the DBs in SQL.<\/p>\n<p>Not every SharePoint DB is meant to be mirrored.&#160; The list of those not meant for mirror are as follows.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Usage and Health Data Collection service application Logging database (typically called \u201cWSS_Logging\u201d) <\/li>\n<li>User Profile service Synchronization database (Typically known as \u201cSync DB\u201d) <\/li>\n<li>Search service databases (\u201cSearch_Service_1_CrawlStoreDB\u201d, \u201cSearch_Service_1_DB\u201d, \u201cSearch_Service_1_PropertyStoreDB\u201d) &#8211; Mirroring the Search databases is supported, but providing redundancy for Search requires additional work.&#160; There may not be much value in doing this. <\/li>\n<li>Web Analytics Staging database (typically called \u201cWebAnalyticsServiceApplication_StagingDB\u201d)<!--EndFragment--> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fortunately the details of all this is described in a nice little MSDN article here.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/cc748824.aspx\" href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/cc748824.aspx\">http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/cc748824.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time to engage mirroring on your SharePoint databases?&#160; Woah\u2026 slow down there horsey!&#160; There\u2019s a few things you should know before you just blindly setup mirroring on all the DBs in SQL. 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