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SQL Server 2017 Administrator's Guide

You're reading from SQL Server 2017 Administrator's Guide One stop solution for DBAs to monitor, manage, and maintain enterprise databases

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786462541

Length 434 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

SQL

Tools

SQL Server

Concepts

Database Administration

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

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Preface

1. Setting up SQL Server 2017 FREE CHAPTER

2. Keeping Your SQL Server Environment Healthy

3. Backup and Recovery

4. Securing Your SQL Server

5. Disaster Recovery Options

6. Indexing and Performance

7. Troubleshooting SQL Server Environment and Internals

8. Migration and Upgrade

9. Automation - Using Tools to Manage and Monitor SQL Server 2017

10. Always On High Availability Features

11. In-Memory OLTP - Why and How to Use it

12. Combining SQL Server 2017 with Azure

Chapter 5. Disaster Recovery Options

High availability and disaster recovery are important solutions of an enterprise strategy for data availability. SQL Server has several different features available for implementing high availability and disaster recovery scenarios, which will help you increase the availability metric of your SQL Server environment and your applications that are using the data stored on SQL Server.

High availability and disaster recovery are frequently mixed up together, as many people think these are the same. Be mindful that they are not. Even if you have a solution for high availability in place, it does not mean that you can recover from a disaster or that you have some disaster recovery plan.

In this chapter, we'll explore the disaster recovery basics to understand the common terms in high availability and disaster recovery and we will discuss what SQL Server has to offer regarding the HA/DR options.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

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