Tag Archives: disaster recovery

Test Your Restores

Posted on July 11, 2013 by way0utwest

Test your restores: he first tip in my Hard Earned Lessons of a DBA piece. I can’t emphasize this enough. I’ve been called in as an employee and consultant to companies that never had tested a restore. Quite a few … Continue reading →

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Prepare for Disaster Webinar

Posted on July 3, 2013 by way0utwest

I’ve been asked by Red Gate to give my “Prepare for Disaster session on a webinar on July 23, 2013. It will be at 10:00am MST/12:00pm EST/ 5:00pm GMT.  This is a session that talks about some of the disaster … Continue reading →

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The Decision to Fail

Posted on June 7, 2013 by way0utwest

We have a number of automated technologies that we can us to seamlessly move from primary to secondary systems without human intervention. SQL Server incorporates a number of these, and many companies use them to ensure their applications are highly available. However things don’t … Continue reading →

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Understanding HA

Posted on May 22, 2013 by way0utwest

I’ve learned a lot about high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) over the last two decades. Some of the things I’ve learned were from studying, some from experimentation and practice, and a few from hard lessons when some part of a … Continue reading →

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