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Professional SQL Server High Availability and Disaster Recovery

You're reading from Professional SQL Server High Availability and Disaster Recovery Implement tried-and-true high availability and disaster recovery solutions with SQL Server

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789802597

Length 564 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

SQL

Tools

SQL Server

Concepts

Databases

Author (1):

Ahmad Osama

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Table of Contents (24) Chapters

About the Book

About the Authors

Objectives

Audience

Approach

Hardware Requirements

Software Requirements

Conventions

Installation

Installing the Code Bundle

Additional Resources

1. Lesson 1 FREE CHAPTER

2. Getting Started with SQL Server HA and DR

3. Lesson 2

4. Transactional Replication

5. Lesson 3

6. Monitoring Transactional Replication

7. Lesson 4

8. AlwaysOn Availability Groups

9. Lesson 5

10. Managing AlwaysOn Availability Groups

11. Lesson 6

12. Configuring and Managing Log Shipping

1. Appendix

SQL Server HA and DR Solutions

The following are the most commonly used HA and DR solutions available in Microsoft SQL Server.

Windows Server Failover Cluster Installation

Commonly known as FCI, this requires SQL Server to be installed as a cluster service on top of the Windows failover cluster.

The SQL Server service is managed by a Windows cluster resource. The example we took to explain HA and DR earlier in this lesson was largely based on this.

This book covers creating a Windows Server Failover Cluster; however, it doesn't cover troubleshooting a failover cluster.

Log Shipping

Log shipping is one of the oldest SQL Server solutions, and is mostly used for DR and SQL Server migration. It takes transaction log backups from the primary server and restores them on one or more secondary servers. It is implemented using SQL Agent jobs.

Log shipping is covered in more detail later in this book.

AlwaysOn Availability Groups

Introduced in SQL Server 2012, AlwaysOn AG is one of the newest and most...

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Authors (1)

Ahmad Osama

Ahmad Osama

Ahmad Osama works for Pitney Bowes Pvt. Ltd. as a technical architect and is a former Microsoft Data Platform MVP. In his day job, he works on developing and maintaining high performant, on-premises and cloud SQL Server OLTP environments as well as deployment and automating tasks using PowerShell. When not working, Ahmad blogs at DataPlatformLabs and can be found glued to his Xbox.

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