Pro SQL Server Always On Availability Groups

This is your field guide to planning, deploying, managing, and troubleshooting AlwaysOn Availability Groups. The AlwaysOn Availability Groups feature is an enterprise-level mirroring solution for high-availability and disaster-recovery. AlwaysOn provides a rich set of options beyond traditional mirroring that reduce overhead and resource usage and enable database administrators to implement and manage mirroring far more easily than by manually implementing the log-shipping solutions of the past. Pro SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups shows how to reduce downtime, maximize application availability, and provide data protection. The goal is always to have your SQL Server database up and running whenever you need it, rain or shine, disaster or otherwise. With a focus on real-world experiences and war stories, authors Uttam Parui, Rahul Deshmukh, 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 AlwaysOn 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 AlwaysOn 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.