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SQL Server 2019 Administrator's Guide

You're reading from   SQL Server 2019 Administrator's Guide A definitive guide for DBAs to implement, monitor, and maintain enterprise database solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789954326
Length 522 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Marek Chmel Marek Chmel
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Vladimír Mužný Vladimír Mužný
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Provisioning the SQL Server Environment
2. Chapter 1: Setting Up SQL Server 2019 FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Keeping Your SQL Server Environment Healthy 4. Section 2: Server and Database Maintenance
5. Chapter 3: Implementing Backup and Recovery 6. Chapter 4: Securing Your SQL Server 7. Chapter 5: Working with Disaster Recovery Options 8. Chapter 6: Indexing and Performance 9. Section 3: High Availability and the Cloud with SQL Server 2019
10. Chapter 7: Planning Migration and Upgrade 11. Chapter 8: Automation – Using Tools to Manage and Monitor SQL Server 2019 12. Chapter 9: Configuring Always On High Availability Features 13. Chapter 10: In-Memory OLTP – Why and How to Use it 14. Chapter 11: Combining SQL Server 2019 with Azure 15. Chapter 12: Taming Big Data with SQL Server 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

SQL Server options for high availability and disaster recovery

SQL Server has many features that you can put in place to implement a HA/DR solution that will fit your needs. These features include the following:

  • Always On Failover Cluster (FCI)
  • Always On Availability Groups
  • Database mirroring
  • Log shipping
  • Replication

In many cases, you will combine one or more of these features together since your HA and DR needs will overlap. HA/DR does not have to be limited to just one single feature. In complex scenarios, you'll plan for a primary HA solution and secondary HA solution that will work as your DR solution at the same time.

Always On Failover Cluster

An Always On Failover Cluster (FCI) is an instance-level protection mechanism that is based on the Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC) feature. A SQL Server instance will be installed across multiple WSFC nodes, where it will appear in the network...

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