22-25 April 2026 
High Availability in SQL Server 2008
2009TL; DR
Database availability is important to every DBA and selecting the right solution to satisfy availability requirements can be a difficult choice. Attendees will be presented with an overview of each technology and complementary technologies enabling them to make better choices of availability solution.
Session Details
There are a growing number of availability solutions to choose between and knowing which technology to deploy based on requirements can be a difficult choice. This session will provide an overview of the technologies available, comparing and contrasting these and discussing common combinations of complementary technologies.
Here's a summary of the session:- The availability problem
- How to compare alternatives
- Solutions to improve database availability
- Failover clustering
- Database mirroring
- Log shipping
- Replication
- Combining High Availability technologies
- Geo-clusters and storage replication
- Other technologies to improve database availability