December 2013
Intermediate to advanced
1872 pages
153h 31m
English
book
Microsoft® SQL Server 2012 Unleashed
by Ray Rankins, Paul T. Bertucci, Chris Gallelli, Alex T. Silverstein
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Passive Server/Failover Licensing
In SQL Server 2012, two or more servers can be configured in a failover mode, with one server running as a passive server so that the passive server picks up the processing of the active server only in the event of a server failure. SQL Server 2012 offers the following types of failover support:
Database mirroring
Failover clustering
AlwaysOn Availability Groups
Log shipping
If your environment uses an active/passive ...