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Introduction
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This tutorial is for people who are really really frustrated.
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One of my project need to use mirroring to replicate data between 2 database servers. I look for help online
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Most likely, you would get this error message:
My Ferrari Error: 1418 - Microsoft SQL Server - The server network address can not be reached or does not exist.
Check the network address name and reissue the command. The server network endpoint did not
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That error message dosen't tell you the truth.... there is nothing to do with "can not be reached or does not
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There are 2 possible causes:
Glory Road [movie] - You forgot to use "NO RECOVERY" when restoring database on the MIRROR server
- NT Authentication fail.... some unknow reason... a lot of people reported this problem
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When you view the SQL Server Log, you would see some error message like :
Error: 1474, Severity: 16, State: 1

Database mirroring connection error 4 'An error occurred while receiving data: '10054(An existing
connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.)'.' for 'TCP://mymirror.mydomain:5022'

or

Error: 1443, Severity: 16, State: 2

or

Database Mirroring login attempt by user 'NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON.' failed with error:
'Connection handshake failed. The login 'NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON' does not have
CONNECT permission on the endpoint. State 84.

Well, if you are having the above error messages, I hope this tutorial could help you.

Solution: Using Certificates

Forget about Windows Authentication or Domain Account..... just use Certificates is good enough.

What you need is:

- 2 Servers and 1 Witness
- Create a database on Principal Server
- Backup the database 2 times: 1st time do a "FULL" backup, 2nd time do a "Transaction Log" backup
- Restore the database on Mirror Server, MUST use option "NO RECOVERY" !!! After restore, the mirror
database will not take any request, that is completely normal.
- Fully Qualified Domain Name for all 3 servers..... you can do this by: 1. Setup a domain, or 2. Change the
computer name and modify the "HOSTS" and "NETWORKS" files on the 3 servers (C:\WINDOWS\system32
\drivers\etc) [if you use the 2nd way, when you change the computer name, press "More..." to input the DNS
suffix]

OK ! Now we shall start!

HOST A = Principal Server

HOST B = Mirror Server
HOST W = Witness Server

You need to copy the certificate between the servers manually.

Here is the SQL code:

-- HOST A
create master key encryption by password = 'abc123!!';
GO

create certificate HOST_A_cert with subject = 'HOST_A certificate', start_date = '2007/11/01', expiry_date =
'2020/11/01';

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GO

Create endpoint endpoint_mirroring state = started

as tcp(listener_port = 7024, listener_ip = all)
for database_mirroring (authentication = certificate HOST_A_cert, encryption = disabled, role = all);
GO

Backup certificate HOST_A_cert to file = 'd:\HOST_A_cert.cer';

GO

-- HOST B
create master key encryption by password = 'abc123!!';
GO

create certificate HOST_B_cert with subject = 'HOST_B certificate', start_date = '2007/11/01', expiry_date =
'2020/11/01';
GO

Create endpoint endpoint_mirroring state = started

as tcp(listener_port = 7024, listener_ip = all)
for database_mirroring (authentication = certificate HOST_B_cert, encryption = disabled, role = all);
GO

Backup certificate HOST_B_cert to file = 'd:\HOST_B_cert.cer';

GO

-- HOST W
create master key encryption by password = 'abc123!!';
GO

create certificate HOST_W_cert with subject = 'HOST_W certificate', start_date = '2007/11/01', expiry_date
= '2020/11/01';
GO

Create endpoint endpoint_mirroring state = started

as tcp(listener_port = 7024, listener_ip = all)
for database_mirroring (authentication = certificate HOST_W_cert, encryption = disabled, role = witness);
GO

Backup certificate HOST_W_cert to file = 'd:\HOST_W_cert.cer';

GO

-- HOST A again
create login HOST_B_login with PASSWORD = 'abc123!!';
GO

create user HOST_B_user from login HOST_B_login;

GO

Create certificate HOST_B_cert

Authorization HOST_B_user
From file = 'D:\HOST_B_cert.cer';
GO

Grant CONNECT ON Endpoint::endpoint_mirroring to [HOST_B_login];

GO
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create login HOST_W_login with PASSWORD = 'abc123!!';
GO

create user HOST_W_user from login HOST_W_login;

GO

Create certificate HOST_W_cert

Authorization HOST_W_user
From file = 'D:\HOST_W_cert.cer';
GO

Grant CONNECT ON Endpoint::endpoint_mirroring to [HOST_W_login];

GO

-- HOST B again
create login HOST_A_login with PASSWORD = 'abc123!!';
GO

create user HOST_A_user from login HOST_A_login;

GO

Create certificate HOST_A_cert

Authorization HOST_A_user

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From file = 'D:\HOST_A_cert.cer';

GO

Grant CONNECT ON Endpoint::Endpoint_mirroring to [HOST_A_login];

GO

-------
create login HOST_W_login with PASSWORD = 'abc123!!';
GO

create user HOST_W_user from login HOST_W_login;

GO

Create certificate HOST_W_cert

Authorization HOST_W_user
From file = 'D:\HOST_W_cert.cer';
GO

Grant CONNECT ON Endpoint::Endpoint_mirroring to [HOST_W_login];

GO

-- HOST W again
create login HOST_A_login with PASSWORD = 'abc123!!';
GO

create user HOST_A_user from login HOST_A_login;

GO

Create certificate HOST_A_cert

Authorization HOST_A_user
From file = 'D:\HOST_A_cert.cer';
GO

Grant CONNECT ON Endpoint::Endpoint_mirroring to [HOST_A_login];

GO

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create login HOST_B_login with PASSWORD = 'abc123!!';
GO

create user HOST_B_user from login HOST_B_login;

GO

Create certificate HOST_B_cert

Authorization HOST_B_user
From file = 'D:\HOST_B_cert.cer';
GO

Grant CONNECT ON Endpoint::endpoint_mirroring to [HOST_B_login];

GO

-- HOST B again
alter database good set partner = 'TCP://server1.ace.local:7024';
GO

-- HOST A again
alter database good set partner = 'TCP://server2.ace.local:7024';
GO

alter database good set witness = 'TCP://mc.ace.local:7024';

GO

Now, everything is fine!

Hope you enjoy it!

Alan - [email protected]

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