During regular business hours, a primary database server experiences a catastrophic hardware failure. Given that financial transactions rely on uninterrupted database access, which course of action will BEST ensure continued transaction processing with minimal downtime?
Contact technical support to start a remote hardware diagnostic evaluation.
Begin restoring the most recent backup to a new server, which might take a few hours.
Reboot the server to determine if it was a temporary issue before taking further actions.
Activate a failover database server that immediately assumes the operations of the failed server.