Chapter 23. High Availability

After completing this chapter, you will be able to

  • Install and configure a failover clustered instance

  • Install and configure database mirroring

  • Install and configure log shipping

  • Install and configure replication

Note

Note

You will need to have three instances of SQL Server 2008 installed to complete the practices in this chapter.

Despite the best plans, situations will always occur that can take your databases offline. In order to achieve maximum availability of your data, SQL Server 2008 ships with four major features that allow you to build resilient systems. In this chapter you will learn about failover clustering, database ...

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