Chapter 3. Higher availability

In a world that is always online, maintaining uptime and streamlining maintenance operations for your mission-critical applications are more important than ever. In SQL Server 2016, the capabilities of the AlwaysOn Availability Group feature continue to evolve from previous versions, enabling you to protect data more easily and flexibly and with greater throughput to support modern storage systems and CPUs. Furthermore, AlwaysOn Availability Groups and AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instances now have higher security, reliability, and scalability. By running SQL Server 2016 on Windows Server 2016, you have more options for better managing clusters and storage. In this chapter, we introduce the new features that you can ...

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