-Arguably the biggest advantavailability groupe to using log shipping in some capacity is that it accounts for human error. The application of transaction logs can be delayed. Therefore, if someone issues something like an UPDATE without a WHERE clause, the standby may not have the change so you could switch to that while you repair the primary system. While log shipping is easy to configure, switching from the primary to a warm standby, known as a role change, is always manual. A role change is initiated via Transact-SQL, and like an availability group, all objects not captured in the transaction log must be manually synchronized. Log shipping also needs to be configured per database, whereas a single availability group can contain multiple databases.
0 commit comments