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SQL Server High Availability

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Course Number

141

Duration

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SQL Server provides a full range of technologies that allow organizations to reduce downtime and maintain high levels of availability. In this training course, you gain experience using SQL Server 2014 AlwaysOn technologies for building a variety of high availability solutions, and learn how to implement failover clustering, log shipping, database mirroring, and peer-to-peer transactional replication.

You Will Learn How To

  • Design a service level agreement that matches business requirements
  • Plan, prepare, and instal a SQL Server failover cluster
  • Mirror a database to ensure instant failover
  • Automate deployment with AlwaysOn technologies
  • Ensure business continuity through failover cluster

Important Course Information

Requirements:

  • Experience with database management at the level of:
    • Course 8464, Administering Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Databases (20462)
  • Working knowledge of Windows Server
  • The ability to backup and recover databases, and manage SQL Server security

Software:

  • Course exercises use SQL Server 2014, running on Windows Server 2012 Enterprise
  • This course is applicable to those using earlier versions of SQL Server

Course Outline

  • High-Availability Fundamentals

Characterizing high availability

  • The "five nines"
  • Site
  • Instance
  • Database
  • Defining a service level agreement

Planned vs. unplanned downtime

  • Performing routine maintenance
  • Recovering from disasters
  • Handling hardware failures
  • Installing Windows 2008 Failover Clustering

Defining components of a cluster

  • Single-instance architecture
  • Multi-instance architecture
  • Shared storage
  • Resource group
  • Heartbeat
  • Quorum

Preparing for Windows failover clustering

  • Configuring an iSCSI target
  • Managing shared storage
  • Installing the failover clustering feature
  • Establishing SQL Server Failover Clustering

Planning for SQL Server failover clustering

  • Determining the correct version of Windows Server
  • Upgrading to SQL Server 2012
  • Leveraging virtual machines for clustering

Creating a SQL Server failover cluster

  • Installing a new failover cluster
  • Adding a new node
  • Failing over to a passive node
  • Employing Log Shipping

Preparing for a warm standby server

  • Synchronizing logins
  • Creating network shares

Implementing transaction log shipping

  • Specifying log backup frequency
  • Configuring the log shipping monitor

Switching to the standby server

  • Redirecting applications
  • Bringing the standby online
  • Configuring Database Mirroring

Comparing mirroring architectures

  • High availability
  • High protection
  • High performance
  • Full safety vs. safety off

Getting ready for mirroring

  • Setting the recovery model
  • Selecting the principal, mirror and witness servers

Mirroring a database

  • Configuring the principal, mirror and witness servers
  • Initiating the mirroring session

Administering mirroring

  • Enabling and disabling mirroring with scripts
  • Launching the Database Mirroring Monitor (DMM)

Employing a mirror for reporting

  • Taking a database snapshot
  • Querying a snapshot of the mirror
  • AlwaysOn Availability Groups

Enhancing the capabilities of database mirroring

  • Database mirroring with multiple databases and multiple mirrors
  • Manually failing over a group of databases

Clustering and deployment

  • Multi-site clustering across subnets
  • Automating deployment using AlwaysOn PowerShell cmdlets
  • Monitoring the high-availability configuration using the AlwaysOn dashboard
  • Combining High-Availability Technologies

Selecting the appropriate strategies

  • Determining the pros and cons of each HA technology
  • Failover clustering with a mirror

Pulling it all together

  • Creating a complete high-availability solution
  • Evaluating the results
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*Informal discussion with instructor about your projects or areas of special interest: 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm

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