PASS Community Summit 2008 - Program Sessions
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PASS Community Summit 2008: Program Sessions (Database Administration)



Failure is not an Option, 24x7 OLTP Database Management for VLDB

Presenter:
Thomas Grohser (bwin Interactive Entertainment AG)

Session Details

Database Mirroring, Replication, Log Shipping, Backup, Security, Maintenance, ... BUT how to combine them to archive Zero Data loss and 99.999% availability in a 24x7 environment with the highest possible performance. Let's hear from a real life installation how it's done. The Session describes how to setup SQL Server to meet this goals step by step first showing how to archive zero data loss (this is shown with standard servers and settings but already heaving the final system in mind) then pushing the availability to 99.999% including descriptions on how maintenance and rollouts are done too still meet this requirements and then for the grand finale I will show how to scale from 4 to 8, 16 and 32 sockets what to consider, influences on database design, storage, network connections and more. Tasks like replication and backup are also shown with real examples like how to backup 2 TB over the network in less than 1 hour without any 3rd party products.

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