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What are the differences between Mirroring and Failover Clustering and when is each one recommended over the other?

What are the main differences between Mirroring and Failover Clustering? What kind of problem each one solves and in what kind of scenarios is each one recommended over the other?
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Rolling changes to production databases

We're currently using Clustering to do fail over for our SQL environment. There are two servers that use the same shared drive. The SQL database is on a shared drive. This provides OS and hardware ...
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Mirroring partner timeout - Not working the way advertised?

I'm testing a 2 node windows failover cluster with mirroring in high safety mode and automatic failover. My mirror is a standalone server as is the witness. All instances are 2008 R2 RTM Enterprise ...
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Setting up a Redundant Sql Server 2008 Configuration While Retaining High Performance and Minimal Downtime

We have a situation where we are moving to a new hosting facility and are attempting to configure our new database environment. However, none of us are formal DBA's so a lot of what we are doing is ...