Chapter 1. Preparing for High Availability
The time: | 4 A.M. |
The place: | Your bedroom |
The event: | Your pager and cellular phone start ringing, buzzing, and vibrating like crazy, waking you from a deep sleep. |
The reason: | Your company’s mission-critical Microsoft SQL Server is down, and has been for about an hour. The overnight operations staff was unable to bring it online. |
Unfortunately, tomorrow is the busiest day of the week and the databases must be fully functional by 8 A.M. Can you not only get there in time, but also bring the server up by then? The last thing that you want to have is the CEO/CTO/CFO/CIO (or other "chief") standing over your shoulder asking you, "When will it be up?"
Assuming you have a disaster recovery plan in place (which is crucial ...
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