Chapter 31. AlwaysOn
After completing this chapter, you will be able to
Understand the improvements in failover cluster instances.
Create AlwaysOn Availability Groups.
Administer AlwaysOn Availability Groups.
Read secondary database copies.
With high availability and disaster recovery becoming priorities in corporate IT departments, there has been a need for a more robust set of solutions compared to the built-in solutions in previous versions of SQL Server prior to Microsoft SQL Server 2012. Oftentimes, one or more technologies had to be combined to satisfy requirements for true high availability as well as disaster recovery. In SQL Server 2012, Microsoft released a set of solutions under the AlwaysOn umbrella. This solution combines improvements ...
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