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SQL Server 2017 Administrator's Guide

You're reading from   SQL Server 2017 Administrator's Guide One stop solution for DBAs to monitor, manage, and maintain enterprise databases

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786462541
Length 434 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Vladimír Mužný Vladimír Mužný
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Marek Chmel Marek Chmel
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Setting up SQL Server 2017 FREE CHAPTER 2. Keeping Your SQL Server Environment Healthy 3. Backup and Recovery 4. Securing Your SQL Server 5. Disaster Recovery Options 6. Indexing and Performance 7. Troubleshooting SQL Server Environment and Internals 8. Migration and Upgrade 9. Automation - Using Tools to Manage and Monitor SQL Server 2017 10. Always On High Availability Features 11. In-Memory OLTP - Why and How to Use it 12. Combining SQL Server 2017 with Azure

Disaster recovery basics

Disaster recovery (DR) is a set of tools, policies, and procedures, which help us during the recovery of your systems after a disastrous event. Disaster recovery is just a subset of a more complex discipline called business continuity planning, where more variables come in place and you expect more sophisticated plans on how to recover the business operations. With careful planning, you can minimize the effects of the disaster, because you have to keep in mind that it's nearly impossible to completely avoid disasters.

The main goal of a disaster recovery plan is to minimize the downtime of our service and to minimize the data loss. To measure these objectives, we use special metrics: Recovery Point and Time Objectives.

Recovery Time Objective (RTO) is the maximum time that you can use to recover the system. This time includes your efforts to fix the...

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