Professional Sql Server High Availability And Disaster Recovery

Leverage powerful features of the SQL Server and watch your infrastructure transform into a high-performing, reliable network of systems. Key FeaturesExplore more than 20 real-world use cases to understand SQL Server featuresGet to grips with the SQL Server Always On technologyLearn how to choose HA and DR topologies for your systemBook Description 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. What you will learnConfigure and troubleshoot Replication, AlwaysOn, and Log ShippingStudy the best practices to implement HA and DR solutionsDesign HA and DR topologies for the SQL Server and study how to choose a topology for your environmentUse T-SQL to configure replication, AlwaysOn, and log shippingMigrate from On-Premise SQL Server to Azure SQL DatabaseManage and maintain AlwaysOn availability groups for extended database mirroringWho this book is for Professional SQL Server High Availability and Disaster Recovery is for you if you are a database administrator or database developer who wants to improve the performance of your production environment. Prior experience of working with SQL Server will help you get the most out of this book.

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.

Get a fast start to using AlwaysOn, the SQL Server solution to high-availability and disaster recovery. Read this short, 150-page book that is adapted from Peter Carter's Pro SQL Server Administration to gain a solid and accurate understanding of how to implement systems requiring consistent and continuous uptime. Begin with an introduction to high-availability and disaster recovery concepts such as Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs), Recovery Time Objectives (RTO), availability levels, and the cost of downtime. Then move into detailed coverage of implementing and configuring the AlwaysOn feature set in order to meet the business objectives set by your organization. SQL Server AlwaysOn Revealed offers real-world advice on how to build and configure the most appropriate topology to meet the high-availability and disaster recovery requirements you are faced with. Content includes strong coverage on implementing clusters, on building AlwaysOn failover clustered instances, and on configuring AlwaysOn Availability Groups. This is a practical and hand-on book to get you started quickly in using one of the most talked-about SQL Server feature sets. Teaches you to build HA and DR solutions using the AlwaysOn feature set Provides real-world advice on configuration and performance considerations Demonstrates administrative techniques for the AlwaysOn feature set What You Will Learn Understand high availability and disaster recovery concepts and terminology. Understand the technologies available, to implement HA and DR. Build and configure a Windows Cluster. Build and configure an AlwaysOn failover clustered instance. Implement AlwaysOn Availability Groups and appropriately configure them. Administer AlwaysOn technologies post implementation. Who This Book Is For SQL Server AlwaysOn Revealed is for database administrators interested in growing their knowledge and skills in Microsoft SQL Server's high-availability and disaster recovery feature set. .

Get a fast start to using AlwaysOn, the SQL Server solution to high-availability and disaster recovery. This second edition is newly-updated to cover the 2016 editions of both SQL Server and Windows Server. Also in this edition is all-new content on troubleshooting and metadata. The book provides a solid and accurate understanding of how to implement systems requiring consistent and continuous uptime, as well as how to troubleshoot those systems in order to keep them running an reliable. Begin with an introduction to high-availability and disaster recovery concepts such as Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs), Recovery Time Objectives (RTO), availability levels, and the cost of downtime. Then move into detailed coverage of implementing and configuring the AlwaysOn feature set in order to meet the business objectives set by your organization. SQL Server AlwaysOn Revealed offers real-world advice on how to build and configure the most appropriate topology to meet the high-availability and disaster recovery requirements you are faced with. Content includes strong coverage on implementing clusters, on building AlwaysOn failover clustered instances, and on configuring AlwaysOn Availability Groups. This is a practical and hand-on book to get you started quickly in using one of the most talked-about SQL Server feature sets. Teaches you to build HA and DR solutions using the AlwaysOn feature set Provides real-world advice on configuration and performance considerations Demonstrates administrative techniques for the AlwaysOn feature set What You Will Learn Understand high availability and disaster recovery in SQL Server 2016 Build and configure a Windows Cluster Create and configure an AlwaysOn failover clustered instance Implement AlwaysOn Availability Groups and appropriately configure them Administer AlwaysOn technologies post implementation Troubleshoot and resolve problems with misbehaving systems Who This Book Is For Database administrators interested in growing their knowledge and skills in Microsoft SQL Server’s high-availability and disaster recovery feature set.

This book explains how to implement an effective disaster recovery strategy for SQL Server 2005 and 2008 databases. It details powerful tools and features for data backup and disaster recovery present in SQL Server 2005 and enhanced in SQL Server 2008. Users of SQL Server 2000 will find that the options for handling disaster recovery have dramatically increased. This book explores those options by examining the technical details of disaster recovery features and then applying that knowledge to practical scenarios. Also covered are fundamental changes to disaster recovery capabilities and common issues to expect when using new features.

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.

Pro AlwaysOn for SQL Server 11 is your complete guide to planning, using, deploying, and maintaining Microsoft SQL Server AlwaysOn as a high availability solution. Sometimes referred to as HADRON, AlwaysOn protects your database by maintaining one or more duplicate copies of your database for use in the event the primary copy is offline. Furthermore, those copies are readable. You can use them as data sources for reporting and BI applications, reducing the load on your production servers and potentially increasing performance of your OLTP applications. This ability to read from duplicate copies is new in AlwaysOn, and is a significant advantage of AlwaysOn over prior, high-availability solutions such as mirroring and clustering. " "Pro AlwaysOn for SQL Server 11 covers the full spectrum of AlwaysOn, from planning through the implementation to maintenance and beyond. You'll find: "Easy to follow, step-by-step instructions for beginner and intermediate users In-depth, detailed information for advanced and expert users Coverage of all phases from planning to sustained maintenance "What you'll learn "Proper planning for SQL Server AlwaysOn Step by step instructions for deployment Database organization into availability groups Common troubleshooting steps Dynamic Management Views specific to AlwaysOn Application development techniques in support of high availability Database backup from secondary servers "Who this book is for " Pro AlwaysOn for SQL Server 11 is for SQL Server administrators and Windows Server administrators, who are researching or deploying SQL Server AlwaysOn as a high availability and disaster recovery solution for their databases. Application developers will also find the book beneficial due to its documentation of the changes that may be required for proper failover in applications.

Discover how you can migrate a traditional on-premise SQL server database to a cloud-based solution with Microsoft Azure. Built with database administrators in mind, this book emulates different scenarios you might come across while working with large, complex SQL database migrations and provides solutions for effectively managing the migrated databases. Key Features Implement backup, restore, and recovery of Azure SQL databases Create shards and elastic pools to scale Azure SQL databases Automate common management tasks with PowerShell Implement over 40 practical activities and exercises across 24 topics to reinforce your learning Book Description As the cloud version of SQL Server, Azure SQL Database differs in key ways when it comes to management, maintenance, and administration. It’s important to know how to administer SQL Database to fully benefit from all of the features and functionality that it provides. This book addresses important aspects of an Azure SQL Database instance such as migration, backup restorations, pricing policies, security, scalability, monitoring, performance optimization, high availability, and disaster recovery. It is a complete guide for database administrators, and ideal for those who are planning to migrate from on premise SQL Server database to an Azure SQL Server database. What you will learn Learn how to provision a new database or migrate an existing on-premise solution Understand how to backup, restore, secure, and scale your own Azure SQL Database Optimize the performance by monitoring and tuning your cloud-based SQL instance Implement high availability and disaster recovery procedures with SQL Database Develop a roadmap for your own scalable cloud solution with Azure SQL Database Who this book is for This book is ideal for database administrators, database developers, or application developers who are interested in developing or migrating existing applications with Azure SQL Database. Prior experience of working with an on-premise SQL Server deployment and brief knowledge of PowerShell and C# are recommended prerequisites.