Microsoft SQL Server 2000 High Availability Series

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Updated : November 19, 2002

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The Microsoft SQL Server 2000 High Availability Series helps you plan and deploy a highly available data center that uses Microsoft SQL Server 2000 through proper procedures that increase availability, backups help recover from catastrophic disasters, redundant components prevent downtime, and redundant servers minimize downtime.

The series consists of:

  • PLANNING to help you design a data center to achieve the level of availability needed for the business environment.

  • DEPLOYMENT to help you implement selected server redundancy solutions to minimize unavailability caused by server failures and planned downtime.

Contents

Planning:

Introduction to High Availability
Overcoming Barriers to High Availability
Recovering a Data Center by Using Database Backups
Preventing Downtime by Using Redundant Components
Minimizing Downtime by Using Redundant Servers
Contents of a Run Book
Bibliography

Deployment:

Implementing Failover Clustering
Implementing Log Shipping
Implementing Transactional Replication
Implementing Network Load Balancing
Implementing Remote Mirroring and Stretch Clustering
Bibliography

Audience

The Microsoft SQL Server 2000 High Availability Series is designed for business decision makers, Microsoft Certified Solution Providers, Microsoft Consulting Services, IT professionals, and developers responsible for application or infrastructure development and deployment.

This series assumes you have a basic understanding of the following areas of SQL Server 2000 and Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system: Windows 2000 Active Directory service and DNS, Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS), Database design for online transaction processing (OLTP) and online analytical processing (OLAP), application design for databases, SQL Server operational procedures, SQL Server backup and restore procedures, SQL Server security model, Redundant Array of Independent Drives (RAID), Storage Area Networks (SANs), and Network Load Balancing (NLB) .

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