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.
