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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 4. AlwaysOn Availability Groups

Learning Objectives

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

  • Describe AlwaysOn availability groups and terminology

  • Explain data synchronization in AlwaysOn

  • Configure Active Directory Domain Controller

  • Configure Windows Server Failover Cluster

  • Configure AlwaysOn availability groups using SQL Server Management Studio

  • Configure AlwaysOn availability groups on Microsoft Azure

This lesson will teach us how to configure an AlwaysOn availability group using various methods.