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Fine article, Steve.  I think all of your points are sound and useful.  I've been doing DBA work for a decade and I still need to be reminded to come...

I think you are naive when you say "I can't see corporations doing it".

I used Double-Take at my last job for both HA and to implement a nightly-refreshed reporting copy of the OLTP DBs.  Overall, it was a good experience, allowing us to...