Microsoft Sql Server 2000 High Availability

Get the definitive reference to maximizing the availability of your critical, SQL Server 2000-based business systems. Developed by Microsoft field consultants who create and support high availability solutions every day, this practical guide explains how to plan, design, implement, and support highly available SQL Server 2000-based systems for both 32-bit and 64-bit environments. You get in-depth, end-to-end guidance--from evaluating availability requirements and capacity planning to implementing failover clustering, log shipping, replication, system backup and restore, system recovery, and other technologies and processes. Real-world scenarios illustrate the book's best practices in action. You also get a CD featuring evaluation software, planning worksheets, scripts, and other on-the-job resources. Discover how to: Evaluate technical, staffing, and budget requirements Plan and configure disk subsystems for performance and availability Configure Microsoft Windows 2000 Server or Microsoft Windows Server 2003 to optimize SQL Server 2000 availability Plan, implement, and maintain a base server cluster and Network Load Balancing Plan and configure failover clustering Use built-in log shipping features or code your own Create comprehensive backup and restore plans Choose replication methods for high availability--and expose replication architecture Develop prevention and disaster recovery strategies; sample runbook and scripts included on CD Minimize downtime for server upgrades and service pack installations Baseline performance and use availability-monitoring tools and techniques CDs feature: 120-day evaluation version of SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition Scripts for custom log shipping, backup and restoration, system monitoring, and other administrative tasks Sample disaster-recovery runbook Worksheets, checklists, and templates Fully searchable eBook For customers who purchase an ebook version of this title, instructions for downloading the CD files can be found in the ebook.

Explains how to assess, select, and build high availability solutions from the ground up. Learn valuable skills, including how to drill down into the heart of high availablity requirements, and how to assess and classify these requirements, and how to select, configure, and specify a matching high availability solution that optimally meets your needs.

The SQL Server High Availability Solution Guide helps database designers and systems engineers implement targeted server redundancy solutions.

The SQL Server 2000 High Availability Planning Guide helps database designers and systems engineers design data centers that can achieve the level of availability needed for particular business environments.

Configure and manage SQL Server 2000 for peak performance and high availability using the undocumented administrative and troubleshooting techniques offered inside this focused reference. SQL Server expert Brian Knight gives you details on system and platform architecture, settings, security, file management, replication, automation, backups, clustering, and restoration. The book also explains how to maximize built-in administrative tools, develop maintenance plans to prevent downtime, and optimize overall system performance. Concise and practical, this essential resource will save you hundreds of hours of troubleshooting time.

This book comprehensively covers the technology, the people, the process, and the real-world best practices for planning, deploying, administering, and maintaining highly available SQL Server 2005 instances. It provides in-depth, detailed advice on what it takes to assure SQL Server high availability for businesses of any size. It covers both availability and performance, from the perspective of high availability, and addresses the crucial needs of enterprise-class, 24x7 SQL Server 2005 implementations. The book is based on real-world experience. It gives sound guidance to DBAs and system administrators on how to really get the job done.

This book is your field guide to planning, deploying, managing, and troubleshooting Always On Availability Groups. The Always On Availability Groups feature is an enterprise-level solution for high availability and disaster recovery. Always On provides a rich set of options that reduce overhead and resource usage and enable database administrators to implement and manage high availability and disaster recovery solutions far more easily than by implementing the log-shipping and database-mirroring solutions of the past. Pro SQL Server Always On Availability Groups shows how to reduce downtime, maximize application availability, and provide data protection. The goal is always to have your SQL Server databases up and running whenever you need them, rain or shine, disaster or otherwise. With a focus on real-world experiences and war stories, authors Uttam Parui and Vivek Sanil offer you: Tips, tricks, and best practices for architecting and deploying availability groups. The confidence required to manage and monitor availability groups. Techniques to troubleshoot common issues that you may face during and after deploying availability groups in a mission-critical production environment. What You Will Learn Grasp important concepts underlying high-availability and disaster recovery. Plan and deploy Always On Availability Groups in your corporate environment. Manage Availability Groups to ensure constant readiness and high throughput. Monitor Availability Group performance and troubleshoot problems fast. Build on the cloud and make Windows Azure part of your availability solution. Employ proven techniques and best practices as tested and shared by the authors. Audience Pro SQL Server Always On Availability Groups is aimed at SQL Server architects, database administrators, and IT professionals who are tasked with architecting and deploying a high-availability and disaster recovery solution involving Microsoft SQL Server. This book is also for SQL Server support staff who will be managing and supporting existing availability group deployments.

CD-ROM contains: presentation slides for chapters in text; review questions from text; instructions on performing tasks in SQL server; script files for chapters in text.