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SQL Server High Availability and Disaster Recovery (HA/DR) (Udemy.com)

Dive deep into how SQL Server works to implement an effective high availability and disaster recovery solution.

4.8
1,810 reviews

Created by: Edwin M Sarmiento

Last updated July 2026

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What you will learn

  • By the end of the course, attendees will be able to understand the different SQL Server high availability and disaster recovery technologies - how they work and properly implement the right solution to address recovery objectives and service level agreements

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  • Rating4.8 out of 5higher than 97% of them
  • Reviews1,810#106 of 389 by number of reviews
  • Length88.3 hourslonger than 100% of them
  • Last updatedJuly 2026more recently than 88% of them

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Overall Score : 96 / 100

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Course Description

This is a deep dive course on understanding how SQL Server works to effectively choose the right high availability and disaster recovery solution that will address every organization's need to protect digital assets.


Packed with videos explaining concept and demos to reinforce the lessons, this course is what every IT professional needs to properly manage and protect a SQL Server database.


If you're a SQL Server database administrator or a systems administrator responsible for SQL Server databases, this is for you. You want to be well-informed and skilled in protecting SQL Server databases from unwanted data loss and outages. Because outages and data loss happen to databases. It's only a matter of time.


The course primarily uses SQL Server 2012 for demonstrations. But the concepts still apply to later versions of SQL Server on Windows - even SQL Server 2025 on Windows Server 2025.


OR...Just watch hours of Practical SQL Server HA/DR Show episode videos...FOR FREE.


The goal of the Practical SQL Server HA/DR Show is to provide guidance and lessons beyond the technical know-how. It's the non-technical aspects of high availability and disaster recovery that most technology professionals often overlook but are as equally important nonetheless.


Get access to these videos without signing up on Udemy.  Just expand the section Practical SQL Server HA/DR Show to watch the videos.
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Instructor Details

Edwin M Sarmiento

Edwin M Sarmiento is a Filipino Microsoft Certified Master and a former 12-year Microsoft Data Platform MVP from Ottawa, Canada. He specializes in high availability, disaster recovery and system infrastructures running on the Microsoft server technology stack.  He is very passionate about technology but has interests in music, professional and organizational development, leadership and management matters when not working with databases.  He lives up to his primary mission statement – “To help people and organizations grow and develop their full potential as God has planned for them“ 

He's a regular contributor on the website MSSQLTips and has authored the book The SQL Server DBA's Guide to Docker Containers. He also contributed to the SQL Server MVP Deep Dives book series - Volume 1 and Volume 2 - and one of the Technical Editors/Reviewers of the book SQL Server 2012 with PowerShell V3 Cookbook. He's actively involved in the SQL Server community by answering questions in Microsoft forums and speaking at conferences like SQLSaturday, SQLRally, SQLConnections, PASS Community Summit, Microsoft TechDays, Live360, Difinity Conference, DevTeach and other user group events. 

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4.8

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By Anonymized User on 8/6/2023

Obscene amount of content for this topic! Amazing way to fill this much time with content which is manageable to process and learn from and apply to my experiences. Thank you so much for your years of commitment, providing assistance to me professionally.

By S on 11/15/2020

Awesome

By Miguel ngel Gimnez on 11/15/2020

the curse was i expected, PD: the translation caption have some issues in some words...

By Selamawit on 10/22/2020

It explains everything you need to know.

By Ashraf Titus on 10/14/2020

It was great! Well thought out we delivered, love the attention to the holistic understanding. :-)

By Shivrudra on 10/10/2020

I Loved the way this course designed and explained , it cleared my many doubts.

By Mario Jos Echeverra Hernndez on 10/1/2020

Very complete and detailed course!

By Andy Nakamura on 9/23/2020

Great explanation and very detailed. I enjoyed the course very much.

By Amrutha Mottammal on 9/15/2020

Thanks Edwin for presenting whole HA-DR concept in detail with demo. Really impressed by your approach on explaining the topics with clarity.

By Hima Joshi on 8/24/2020

This course helps me a lot with each concepts of SQL SERVER AG.Explained in detail with practical.

By Humayun Lone on 8/14/2020

He has a very good knowledge on HA/DR side of SQL Server Databases. But his voice / tone is terrible. It seems he has done the recording in his house and does not want to disturb others in the house by keeping his voice low.
His pronunciation seems to be artificial which is sometimes, hard to understand and boring. I could have enjoyed the course provided he did not have these two major flaws: his voice and pronunciation.
I would recommend him to watch the following two videos on Udemy to see how it is done.

By Mike on 7/24/2020

Excellent examples and explanations especially on Always-On and Fail-over Clustering

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