Every second counts when you want to run a organization’s mission critical databases and maintain a high service availability. Implementing high availability in SQL Server requires careful planning and execution. In this session we will discuss how you can be effectively maintain your Business continuity and system availability using SQL Server clustering with minimal downtime while continue to let your users keep working while IT works to resolve the problems in Failover clustering or Load balancing clustering. Best practices as to how SQL Server clustering can limit downtime when applying upgrades or security patches and failover downtime during planned outage. Recommended approaches for instance level high availability using FCI (failover cluster instance) and the Database level high availability using Always On availability group (AG) for service reliability.