Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2000 High Availability

Chapter 11. Real-World High Availability Solutions

Now that you have learned about high availability technologies, you need to understand how to put the pieces of the puzzle together. This chapter walks you through a real-world example and identifies the decision points and how you would need to confront the challenges. This exercise addresses mainly the technology aspect; the people and process aspect is covered, but is better handled by other examples in this book. The chapter concludes with a case study of Microsoft.com and details of how they achieve high availability.

The Scenario

Your company is starting to plan for a new, custom-built application to support its sales field in North America and Europe. Other global sales territories will be ...