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SQLAuthority News – 2 Whitepapers Announced – AlwaysOn Architecture Guide:...
Understanding AlwaysOn Architecture is extremely important when building a solution with failover clusters and availability groups. Microsoft has just released two very important white papers related...
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SQLAuthority News – Microsoft Whitepaper – AlwaysOn Solution Guide:...
SQL Server 2012 has many interesting features but the most talked feature is AlwaysOn. Performance tuning is always a hot topic. I see lots of need of the same and lots of business around it. However,...
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SQL SERVER – Get High Availability with SQL Server 2012
I have received a lot of inquiries about how to learn High Availability. Please reach out to my friends at Koenig Solutions. The SQL Server 2012 offers a plethora of solutions for high-availability...
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SQL SERVER – Edition Upgrade from Evaluation to Enterprise Core – AlwaysOn...
While preparing for a demo about SQL migration, one of the demo was to show the steps needed to upgrade Evaluation edition to full version of SQL Server. The steps are pretty simple and already blogged...
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SQL SERVER – How to Create a Readable Secondary Server in SQL Server Standard...
[Notes from Pinal]: The basic nature of human is greedy. When we get one thing which we desire the next thing. In the early world of SQL Server we got a secondary server as a backup or high...
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SQL SERVER – How To Improve Performance by Offloading Backups to a Secondary...
[Notes from Pinal]: If we get one server, we want two servers, and if we get two servers, we want four servers. If we know we are going to get only two servers, we try our best to get maximum out of...
View ArticleSQL SERVER – Attaching and Restoring Database in a SQL Server Clustering...
[Notes from Pinal]: In my career, I have seen many database experts who are great with what they do, but when they have to work with clustering or AlwaysOn solutions, they usually avoid it. The reason...
View ArticleSQL SERVER – AlwaysOn Availability Group Stuck in Resolving State For Long time
This is one of the common issues which I heard from my clients using SQL Server and they don’t know why it happens. What is resolving state in SQL Server AlwaysOn? When there is an availability group,...
View ArticleSQL SERVER – Adding File to Database in AlwaysOn Availability Group
Writing some typical interview questions have been on my list always. I look for new ways of tricking the person and most importantly, some of the interview questions are designed to make sure the...
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Understanding AlwaysOn Architecture is extremely important when building a solution with failover clusters and availability groups. Microsoft has just released two very important white papers related...
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SQL Server 2012 has many interesting features but the most talked feature is AlwaysOn. Performance tuning is always a hot topic. I see lots of need of the same and lots of business around it. However,...
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SQL SERVER – Migration of SQL Server 2012 Database Mirroring to AlwaysOn...
Migration of SQL Server 2012 Database Mirroring to AlwaysOn Availability group can get a bit tricky if you’re not quite familiar with the workings of SQL Server 2012. This article gives you a better...
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SQL SERVER 2016 – Enhancements with AlwaysOn Availability Groups – Notes from...
[Note from Pinal]: In this episode of the Notes from the Field series database expert Mike Lawell talks about his thoughts and observation about SQL Server 2016 and enhancements with AlwaysOn...
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SQL SERVER – Unable to Create Listener for AlwaysOn Availability Group in...
Recently I was trying to help a customer who was deploying AlwaysOn Availability Group in Microsoft Azure via template deployment. The template was failing with below error StatusMessage { “status”:...
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SQL SERVER – Added New Node in Windows Cluster and AlwaysOn Availability...
Almost all the time, whenever there is a wizard, it’s a human habit to go with the defaults and finally click finish. Once of my client sent below email to me. In this blog post we are going to learn...
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SQL SERVER – Unable to create login AlwaysOn availability group secondary...
One of my clients reported a usual behavior of the AlwaysOn availability group. He informed me that he is trying to add a login on the secondary replica in the AlwaysOn AG environment but it is failing...
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SQL SERVER – AlwaysOn AG (Availability Group) and TDE Error – Please Create a...
Along with performance consulting, sometimes I also get requests from a few clients to look at the AlwaysOn availability group related problems. ENVIORNMENT: Three node AlwaysOn availability group with...
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SQL SERVER – UpdateHADRResource – Failed to version-copy file – Exception...
While applying patches on SQL server standalone instance, in the cluster, it failed with error as below in Summary.txt file. Let us learn about how to fix Exception data is: System.IO.IOException....
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SQL SERVER – Migrating AlwaysOn Availability Group to New AD Domain
As a part of my independent consulting, I also provide a high level overview of the migration strategy. As a part of this engagement, my client wanted me to provide steps to move AlwaysOn availability...
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SQL SERVER – How to Apply Patch in AlwaysOn Availability Group Configuration?
This is one of the common question which is asked via emails to me. “How to apply the patch in AlwaysOn Availability Group configuration?” OR “What are the steps we should do and things to take care...
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