June 2015
Intermediate to advanced
1800 pages
70h 6m
English
Put simply, SQL Server 2014 allows failover and failback to or from another node in a cluster at the server-instance level. This is an immensely powerful tool for achieving higher availability virtually transparently.
There are two approaches to implementing SQL Server failover clustering: active/passive or active/active modes.
In an active/passive configuration, an instance of SQL Server actively services database requests from one of the nodes in a SQL Server failover cluster (that is, the active node). Another node is idle until, for whatever reason, a failover occurs (to the passive node). With a failover situation, the secondary node (the passive node) takes over all SQL Server resources ...
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