Interoperability & Coexistence

Database mirroring can be used with the following features or components of SQL Server:

Always On Failover Cluster Instances (SQL Server Failover Clustering)

Change data capture (and change tracking)

Database snapshots

Full-text catalogs

Log shipping

Replication

Database mirroring does not interoperate with the following:

Cross-database transactions/distributed transactions

For information about why such transactions are not supported, see

Cross-Database

Transactions and Distributed Transactions for Always On Availability Groups and Database

Mirroring (SQL Server).

Always On availability groups

Database Mirroring (SQL Server)