Chapter 9. Implementing High Availability

Terms you’ll need to understand:

  • ✓ Database mirroring

  • ✓ Log shipping

  • ✓ Witness

  • ✓ Secondary database

  • ✓ Replication

  • ✓ Publisher

  • ✓ Distributor

  • ✓ Subscriber

  • ✓ Latency

  • ✓ Failover

  • ✓ Clustering

  • ✓ Data mart

  • ✓ Data warehouse

Techniques you’ll need to master:

  • ✓ Utilizing database mirroring with and without a witness

  • ✓ Setting up, initiating, and implementing log shipping

  • ✓ Defining replication and designing the replication architecture

  • ✓ Defining clustering, data mart, and data warehouse

  • ✓ Understanding techniques for controlling latency

High availability is important in most database systems. Having data available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, every day of the year is important in many environments. Every database administrator aims ...

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