As I understand it if you are using mirroring on SQL server and have failover setup you can adjust the connection strings of your applications that use it so they know the name of the other server ...

You must specify the initial principal server and database in the connection string, and optionally the failover partner server.<BR><BR>There are many ways to write the connection string, but here ...

Today’s README file explains how to create connection strings to SQL Server databases using Visual Studio’s built-in tools. To provide an example using real source, I created a simple Winforms ...