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Professional SQL Server High Availability and Disaster Recovery

By : Ahmad Osama
Book Image

Professional SQL Server High Availability and Disaster Recovery

By: Ahmad Osama

Overview of this book

Professional SQL Server High Availability and Disaster Recovery explains the high availability and disaster recovery technologies available in SQL Server: Replication, AlwaysOn, and Log Shipping. You’ll learn what they are, how to monitor them, and how to troubleshoot any related problems. You will be introduced to the availability groups of AlwaysOn and learn how to configure them to extend your database mirroring. Through this book, you will be able to explore the technical implementations of high availability and disaster recovery technologies that you can use when you create a highly available infrastructure, including hybrid topologies. Note that this course does not cover SQL Server Failover Cluster Installation with shared storage. By the end of the book, you’ll be equipped with all that you need to know to develop robust and high performance infrastructure.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)
Professional SQL Server High Availability and Disaster Recovery
Preface

Summary


In this lesson, we have learned about high availability and disaster recovery concepts, as well as the terminology and the different solutions available in SQL Server to achieve HA and DR. We have discussed the importance of RTO and RPO and the role they play in selecting an HA and DR strategy or solution.

We have also learned about replication concepts and terminology, and different types of replications that are available in SQL Server. We looked at how to configure and troubleshoot snapshot replication.

In the next lesson, we'll learn about transactional replication.