August 2009
Intermediate to advanced
464 pages
13h 59m
English
Broadly defined, a high-availability solution refers to any system or mechanism put in place to ensure the ongoing availability of a SQL Server instance in the event of a planned or unplanned outage. We've already covered the importance of a well-designed and tested backup and recovery strategy, so the major high-availability options we'll examine here are clustering, log shipping, and database mirroring. While replication can (and is) used by many as part of a high-availability solution, we won't consider it here on the basis of its major purpose as a data distribution technology.
As you learned in chapter 5, failover clustering's major advantage is that it protects the entire server ...
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