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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

Chapter 5. Managing AlwaysOn Availability Groups

Learning Objectives

By the end of this lesson, you will be able to do the following:

  • Perform automatic and manual failover

  • Perform various management tasks against an availability group

  • Monitor an AlwaysOn availability group

  • Detect common AlwaysOn availability group problems and implement their solutions

This lesson will show us how to manage and maintain an AlwaysOn AG. We will also learn how to troubleshoot an AG.