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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Administration Cookbook

By : Satya Shyam K Jayanty
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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Administration Cookbook

By: Satya Shyam K Jayanty

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Administration Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
More DBA Manageability Best Practices

Implementing Piecemeal restore strategies


The availability and recoverability is important for any database as that helps, at any point in time, to restore a database to a specific point-in-time. Also, to restore all file groups in that database to the same point-in-time requires the database design capable of implementing multiple file groups for a database. As the databases become larger and larger, the infrastructure and technology must support the availability strategy. In such cases, restoring an entire multi-terabyte database to a point-in-time could result in big outage. The online page restore feature from SQL Server 2008 R2 will build a best strategy of multiple database files availability in order to host very large databases and minimize the backup time.

Getting ready…

The following prerequisites are essential to use the online piecemeal restore feature:

  • SQL Server 2008 R2 instance must be the DataCenter or Enterprise edition

  • The SQL Server instance must be the 2005 version or higher...