ALTER DATABASE Your_DBNAME SET PARTNER FAILOVER

Well that is very simple but to automate it will take a bit more work. No problem though. Break out the powershell and away we go.

/* Style Definitions */
table.MsoNormalTable
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mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;
mso-style-noshow:yes;
mso-style-priority:99;
mso-style-qformat:yes;
mso-style-parent:”";
mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;
mso-para-margin:0in;
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font-family:”Calibri”,”sans-serif”;
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mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-fareast-font-family:”Times New Roman”;
mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:”Times New Roman”;
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}

## Step one: Load SMO Assembly

[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName(‘Microsoft.SqlServer.SMO’ ) | out-null

#Step Two: Define Variables

$failover = 0

$instances = “workdog”, “workdog\test”

##Step Three: find current database that is the principal

foreach ($instance in $instances)

{

$s = New-Object (‘Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Server’ ) $instance

$databases = $s.Databases

#$databases | select name, mirroringstatus, status

foreach($db in $databases)

{

$name = $db.name

$mirrorstatus = $db.MirroringStatus

$mirrorstatus = $mirrorstatus.ToString()

$status = $db.Status

if(($mirrorstatus -ne “None”) -and ($Status -eq “Normal”) -and ($failover -eq 0))

{

echo “$name is on $instance”

$query = “ALTER DATABASE $name SET PARTNER FAILOVER”

$failover = 1

Invoke-Sqlcmd -serverinstance $instance -Database master -Query $query

So basically what I am doing is setting up SMO connections to my instances and looping thru all the databases. If I find a database that is mirrored and the primary then I know what instance to run the SQL Query against and I do. I also set $failover = 1 so that the script knows that if it iterates thru and finds that the second instance now has the primary do not run the failover again.

Hope this helps