Chapter 11Implementing high availability and disaster recovery

No server is (intended to be) an island. Application downtime is costly. Loss of data can be fatal to an organization. In this chapter, we detail the Microsoft SQL Server technologies designed to provide high availability and disaster recovery, adding to the discussion of backups in Chapter 10, “Developing, deploying, and managing data recovery.” What’s beyond taking backups?

First, we take an overview of the available technologies, including ...

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