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Difference Between Replication and Database Mirroring

Difference Between Replication and Database Mirroring? NEED SOME POINTS
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Database mirroring is primarily a high availability function while replication is meant for providing mechanisms to maintain copies of databases for use in reporting and other things. The Books Online are pretty clear on exact functionality of [Mirroring][1] and [Replication][2]. [1]: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189852.aspx [2]: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms151198.aspx
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Think of mirroring as if it were Logshipping on steroids with some very good uses. Those uses for mirroring got amped a bit more with the changes introduced in SQL 2012.
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