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...