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SQL Server MVP Deep Dives, Volume 2
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SQL Server MVP Deep Dives, Volume 2

by Brad McGehee, Louis Davidson, Greg Low, Kimberly Tripp, Paul S. Randal, Kalen Delaney, Paul Nielsen
October 2011
Intermediate to advanced
688 pages
24h 5m
English
Manning Publications
Content preview from SQL Server MVP Deep Dives, Volume 2

Chapter 44. Building a scale-out Reporting Services farm

Edwin Sarmiento

In a SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services scale-out deployment, two or more report server instances share a single report server database. This type of deployment enables you to increase the number of users who concurrently access reports and improve the availability of the report server.

What is network load balancing?

Network load balancing (NLB) is a clustering technology offered by Microsoft as part of the Windows Server operating systems. The good thing about Windows NLB is that it’s available on nearly all the editions of Windows Server 2008 R2, unlike the failover clustering feature where you need at least the Enterprise Edition to have it configured. NLB uses ...

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