Real time mirroring between two sql server databases

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Published on 2011-01-04T15:33:35Z Indexed on 2011/01/05 7:55 UTC
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Hi,

I'm a c# programmer, not a DBA and I've had the (mis)fortune to be handed a database admin task. So please bear this in mind when answering this question.

What I've been asked to do is to create a real time two-way mirror between two databases with a 10 Megabit connection between them. So when either changes it updates the other. This is not a standard data mirroring/failover task where one DB is the master and the other is a backup - both are live and each needs to instantly reflect changes made to the other.

In my head this sounds like a tall order, one which may even be impossible - after all in a rapidly changing environment with lots of users this is going to be massively resource intensive and create locks and queues of jobs all over the place.

Is it possible? If so, can anyone either give me some basic instructions and/or point me at some places to start my reading and research?

Cheers, Matt

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