Question : DB Mirroring / Auto-Failover, but ODBC?

I think I have a problem.

I'm all excited about finally getting auto-failover in place for some of our databases, using High Safety configuration and mirroring.

For client apps, I know we can edit the connection strings to identify the failover server.

But...it just hit me that some of our backbone (third-party) applications use ODBC DSNs to identify our primary server.

Crap!  I really want to use this configuration, and not a Windows Server cluster or anything like that.

What are my options?  I cannot convert this app to use ODBC.  And I cannot convert it to allow OLEDB connections.

Thanks for any insight on this.

Answer : DB Mirroring / Auto-Failover, but ODBC?

Windows takes a few minutes to finish loading all services.  It depends on your speed of your cpu, speed of your hard drive and how much RAM you have.

Try removing the free AVG and see what happens.  If problem persists, do a defrag analyze and defrag the hard drive if it needs it that will speed up the Windows loading.