Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2000 High Availability

Preface

Walt Disney once said, "It all started with a mouse." Walt’s quotation, believe it or not, could apply to this book, except I can say, "It all started with a white paper." Take a trip in your time machine to the fall of 2000. I was going to write a white paper for Microsoft SQL Server on SQL Server 2000 failover clustering. I started it, but then it turned into a chapter for the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Resource Kit (among others I wrote or had a hand in, including "Five Nines" and "Log Shipping") and finally became a white paper proper in 2001 (with more stuff than was in the Resource Kit chapter). But it did not end there—there were training courses, presentations, and so on. Like it or not, SQL Server 2000 high availability and I were ...