3:00pm - 4:00pm
Obviously my observations are getting shorter and more terse (I'll probably expand them tomorrow), but this session covered some of the high availability solutions available with SQL Server 2005. For instance the not-yet "released" database mirroring, online reindexing, partial database availability, zero-init improvements, fast recovery, peer to peer transactional replication, snapshot versioning of rows, among other availability improvements. Very exciting improvements that should significantly improve the already impressive availability of SQL Server. The demonstrations were clear and evidentiary of the features, demonstrating a corrupt database, readers simultaneous with writers, taking a server in a mirrored configuration offline, and other new features. Very interesting.
