SQL Server MVP Deep Dives, Volume 2

Chapter 18. High availability of SQL Server in the context of Service Level Agreements

Tobiasz Janusz Koprowski

For most of us, especially readers of this book, SQL Server—in any version—is the heart of the system. We take care of it, perfect it, use more and more recent versions, and spend lots of time getting to know, and, most of all, befriending it. We use many tools to employ it in a better, safer, more convenient, and more efficient way: first through procedures, scripts, and applications we create, and then through tools supplied by Microsoft and applications supplied by various vendors. This is the ideal state for us, apart from those difficult moments when a presentation is needed, or, worse still, when we have to plan a budget for ...