December 2013
Intermediate to advanced
1872 pages
153h 31m
English
In This Chapter
With SQL Server 2012, Microsoft continues to push the high-availability (HA) and performance (scale-out) bar higher and higher. Extensive HA options such as AlwaysOn Availability Groups and AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instances, coupled with a variety of Windows server family enhancements, provide almost everyone with a chance at achieving the mythical five-nines (that is, 99.999% uptime). We’ll dive into the AlwaysOn new features in this chapter. This capability is taking the database world by storm. It is truly the next generation ...