Can 2008+ deal with catastrophic failure better than 2005?

  • Little background is necessary.

    The infrastructure guys were doing some work a week or two ago and accidentally disconnected all VM's from the SAN.

    Aside from the unplanned, horrible nature of the issue, i was secretly happy as it highlighted holes in our failover "strategy" i have been moaning about for a while.

    On fixing the mess i found:

    -anything from sql 2008 upwards was ok once storage was reconnected and the server rebooted.

    -anything from sql 2005 (and/or windows server 2003) ended up with corrupt databases that needed restore from backups.

    What tech was implemented post sql 2005 that may have assisted in corruption in this case?

  • winston Smith (6/12/2015)


    Little background is necessary.

    The infrastructure guys were doing some work a week or two ago and accidentally disconnected all VM's from the SAN.

    Aside from the unplanned, horrible nature of the issue, i was secretly happy as it highlighted holes in our failover "strategy" i have been moaning about for a while.

    On fixing the mess i found:

    -anything from sql 2008 upwards was ok once storage was reconnected and the server rebooted.

    -anything from sql 2005 (and/or windows server 2003) ended up with corrupt databases that needed restore from backups.

    What tech was implemented post sql 2005 that may have assisted in corruption in this case?

    I'm not sure that there was any tech implemented because the corruption could have been just because the databases that got corrupted were in mid-write when the storage disappeared, while other databases were idle.

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