February PASSMN Meeting This Week

By StrateSQL, 2011/02/14

PASSMN meeting is this week on Tuesday. Without further ado…

Meeting Details

Here are the details on the meeting location and time:

Date: February 15th, 2011
Time: 3:00 – 5:00 PM
Location: 8300 Norman Center Drive, 9th Floor, Bloomington, MN 55437

Please, RSVP so that we know how much food to have for the meeting. If you can’t make it to the meeting in person, then join us online:

URL: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups/join?id=8RFQD5&role=attend&pw=Gwp%2CrC%3E%244
Meeting ID: 8RFQD5
Entry Code: Gwp,rC>$4

High Availability & DR Options for SQL Server

A comparison of SQL HA & DR options, by a practitioner who has implemented & managed all the SQL HA and DR approaches (& various combinations thereof). Tim is an operational DBA, charged with keeping SQL servers up & running & optimized, for managed-services customers. We will compare trade-offs between the various SQL HA & DR options: for complexity, usability, hardware requirements, licensing, failover speed, initial costs, ongoing support costs, staff skill requirements, etc.

Also, as you may be aware, Microsoft has announced a set of very powerful “AlwaysOn” features for the upcoming version of SQL (“Denali”), features popularly referred to as “HADRON” (“High Availability Disaster Recovery always ON”). We’ll provide a brief overview of those features now, and will have a full presentation on that later in the year.