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High Availability—Always On

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Always On Technologies provide a full range of options to minimize downtime and maintain appropriate levels of application availability.
  • Increased Availability

    Minimize downtime and speed recovery, and achieve the appropriate level of availability defined by service level agreements.

  • Decreased Downtime

    Recover quickly from unplanned downtime, and minimize downtime from system maintenance and operational procedures that are necessary for smooth operation of mission-critical applications.

  • Improved Manageability

    Investigate, monitor, and recover damaged data across your enterprise, using powerful, intelligent, management tools that simplify recovery.

Top New Features

  • Recover corrupt data pages from a mirror server with enhanced database mirroring features. Watch the short demo.

  • Take advantage of failover clustering enhancements in Windows Server 2008.

  • Add new nodes to a peer-to-peer replication solution without taking replication offline.

  • Improve restore times, and reduce backup volumes with new support for backup compression.

  • Improve concurrency with locking enhancements.

  • Reduce downtime for hardware maintenance with hot-add CPU capabilities.

  • Use Resource Governor to proactively control workload prioritization.

Highlighted Capability

Database Mirroring Wizard

Database Mirroring Wizard

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