Non AG Aware

Make SQL Server Agent Jobs HADR Aware

Introduction Always On Availability Groups (AGs/AG...

Enabling Container Availability Groups

Availability Groups with Docker Containers

Build a SQL Server AlwaysOn environment with docker

Configuring Availability Groups in Ubuntu

In this article, we will review how to configure Always On Availability Groups in Ubuntu Server using the Pacemaker cluster. The following are the high-level steps to configure Always On Availability Groups (AOAG) with an Ubuntu server. Install SQL Server on Ubuntu 16.04 Install Pacemaker agents and configure the cluster Create Always On Availability Groups Create […]

Have You Deployed an Availability Group?

Learning about the Availability Group technology can be valuable for your career. Today Steve asks if you've deployed one, and if not, perhaps you want to try.

What's the Cost of an Hour?

Outages can be expensive, and today Steve asks if you know just how expensive they are for your organization.

DR Priority

Today Steve asks about HA and DR. What compromises and choices do you make in your environment and how do you ensure your clients can get to their data.

MTTD

Achieving high availability is hard. Today Steve discusses the challenges of five nines of uptime.

A Step by Step Guide to the Availability Group (AG) Listener

Availability databases hosted on SQL Server Always On Availability Groups (AG) can be connected using a unique Virtual Network Name (VNN), called the Availability Group Listener. When an Availability Group is enabled, clients can connect to databases in both primary and secondary replicas without explicitly specifying the SQL Server instance name. You don’t even need […]