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Shipping Firm With 5 Terabytes of Data Deploys SQL Server 2005 Database Mirroring

Overview As second largest container ship line in the world, Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) relies on its 5-terabyte database that tracks more than 15 billion transactions a year. With annual growth of 30 percent and an ever-more data requests from its worldwide customers, MSC needed an enterprise solution that would scale with its growth, simplify database administration, and help ensure high availability. The company upgraded its database to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 1 running on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition on a Unisys ES7000 platform. SQL Server 2005 Database Mirroring provides high availability.

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Publisher	Microsoft	File Format	WORD
Date Published	January 2007	Downloads	1
Format	Case Studies
Topics	High Availability, Database Management

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