Once you’ve built your new HA/DR setup, you need to test planned failovers, unplanned failovers with data loss, and planned fail-backs without data loss. Get Brent’s battle-tested checklists for testing high availability inside the same data center, plus disaster recovery failovers to another data center.
1.2 Building and Testing Reliable SQL Servers Part 2 (21m)
Once you’ve built your new HA/DR setup, you need to test planned failovers, unplanned failovers with data loss, and planned fail-backs without data loss. Get Brent’s battle-tested checklists for testing high availability inside the same data center, plus disaster recovery failovers to another data center.
This class is no longer available for purchase. I've stopped doing production DBA work, and the material had gradually drifted out of date.
- 1.1 Intro and DBA Skills Quiz (33m)
- 1.2 Building and Testing Reliable SQL Servers Part 1 (25m)
- 1.3 Architecture for HA and DR Part 1
- 1.3 Architecture for HA and DR Part 2
- 1.4 Design Quorum for Failover Clusters (23m)
- 1.5 Triaging Failure in Availability Groups (32m)
- 1.6 Recovering from Failover Part 1 (40m)
- 1.6 Recovering from Failover Part 2 (12m)
- 1.7 Building an Inventory and a Support Matrix (39m)
- 2.1 Database Mirroring Field Medic Guide (40m)
- 2.2 Transaction Log Shipping Tips and Tricks (45m)
- 2.3 Troubleshooting Backup and Restore Problems (35m)
- 2.4 Optimizing DBCC CHECKDB (53m)
- 2.5 Availability Group Backup and CHECKDB Part 1 (8m)
- 2.5 Availability Group Backup and CHECKDB Part 2 (32m)
- 2.6 Cloud for the Senior DBA (38m)
- 2.7 Homework: Deciding Between Availability Solutions Part 1 (11m)
- 2.7 Homework: Deciding Between Availability Solutions Part 2 (27m)
- 3.1 Shared Storage Part 1 (28m)
- 3.1 Shared Storage Part 2 (32m)
- 3.2 Advanced SAN Features – Storage Tiering and Snapshots (31m)
- 3.3 Virtualization Management and Troubleshooting (61m)
- 3.4 Server Hardware Sizing (36m)
- 3.5 Homework Part 1 (11m)
- 3.5 Homework Part 2: Answers (28m)
- 4.1 How to Triage SQL Server Emergencies Part 1 (16m)
- 4.1 How to Triage SQL Server Emergencies Part 2 (44m)
- 4.1 How to Triage SQL Server Emergencies Part 3 (43m)
- 4.2 Index Maintenance for Enterprise Environments (43m)
- 4.4 Recap and Q&A (28m)