>>All help is appreciated. Thank you.
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>>>>I am anticipating setting up mirroring between servers on opposite sides of the country. When I look at the BOL mirroring section, however, it says mirroring will not be continued in future SQL versions, and that AlwaysOn capability should be used. When I look at the instructions for AlwayOn, however, it seems that that is for a Windows cluster configuration. My servers are on different domains, and not in any cluster. So is Always on still a candidate, or would I need to go with mirroring, or even traditional replication?
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>>>Hi, Rollin, I work more on the application side of SQL Server than hard-core administration, so I don't have a good answer at the moment. I will ask a few people and see what I can find out.
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>Rollin,
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>You best bet for a great answer would be if you ask in either
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>http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqldatabaseengine/threads
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>or in the
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>http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/home?forum=sqldisasterrecovery
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>forums.

Well, there are quite a number of links on MSDN about AlwaysOn vs Mirroring vs Replication. I was not able to find the first one I looked at, but they all seem to say the same type of thing. AlwaysOn is for clustered servers, Mirroring 'should' still be here for a while, but not forever, and replication still is good for DR as well.

Here is one of the links.

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/4ad086ae-6eab-44e3-b278-57120a5cace2/sql-2012-alwayson-vs-database-mirroring-vs-traditional-failover-clustering?forum=sqldisasterrecovery