This book teaches a very esoteric area of Sybase administration High Availability which involves using the Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise software to use a shared disk architecture. High Availability is a very esoteric area of Sybase administration, yet a very critical topic for administrators working in a transaction-intensive environment, such as e-commerce, to understand. This book explains how to use Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise software to set up a shared-disk architecture that enhances the continuous availability of service with no downtime. Among the topics discussed are the various architecture options for High Availability; failover and failback; asymmetric and symmetric failover; and proxy databases. A step-by-step set-up process is...