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SQL Server offers various high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) features to maintain database accessibility during maintenance or outages. Key features include Always On Availability Groups, Failover Cluster Instances, Log Shipping, and Replication, each providing different levels of protection and functionality. Database Mirroring is deprecated and replaced by Availability Groups for improved performance and reliability.

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sql availablity

SQL Server offers various high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) features to maintain database accessibility during maintenance or outages. Key features include Always On Availability Groups, Failover Cluster Instances, Log Shipping, and Replication, each providing different levels of protection and functionality. Database Mirroring is deprecated and replaced by Availability Groups for improved performance and reliability.

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SQL Server Availability Overview

SQL Server provides several high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) features to
ensure your databases remain accessible during planned maintenance, hardware failures, or
outages. These features help minimize downtime and data loss.

Key Availability Features:

1. Always On Availability Groups

Provides high availability for a group of databases.

Supports automatic failover, multiple replicas, and read-only secondaries.

Requires Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC).

2. Failover Cluster Instances (FCI)

Entire SQL Server instance fails over between nodes.

Shared storage is required.

Offers instance-level protection.

3. Log Shipping

Periodically ships transaction log backups from a primary to one or more secondary servers.

Supports manual failover.

Simple to set up, but not real-time.

4. Database Mirroring (deprecated in newer versions)

Maintains a hot standby copy of a single database.

Synchronous or asynchronous modes.


Replaced by Availability Groups.

5. Replication

Not a true HA solution, but can be used for reporting and availability of specific data.

Useful for distributing data across multiple locations.

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