Tag Archives: high availability

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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AlwaysOn and Contained Databases in SQL Server 2012

Posted on July 14, 2012 by way0utwest

This talk is mostly based on contained databases in SQL Server 2012. The first part of the talk goes over the problems with current database movement, the idea of containment, and the implementation in SQL Server 2012. There are demos … Continue reading →

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The High Availability Poll

Posted on June 29, 2012 by way0utwest

The cost of building highly available databases dropped with the introduction of Database Mirroring in 2005. Without the need to purchase identical hardware for a spare system, it became much easier and less expensive to set up extra systems that … Continue reading →

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