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MVP Data Platform renewed and next SQL Saturday event at Paris
The last 1th April 2016, I got my 6th MVP Data Platform renewal (not an april’s fool for sure). This is definitely a good news and I would like to thanks again Microsoft for its interest. So the story...
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SQL Server AlwaysOn: is my database ready for failover?
In this blog post I just want to clarify values that we may find from the is_failover_ready column of the sys.dm_hadr_database_replica_cluster_states DMV. A couple of days ago, I had an interesting...
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SQL Server 2016 AlwaysOn: Direct seeding and performance considerations
This blog post follows the previous one about new direct seeding feature shipped with SQL Server 2016. As a reminder, I had some doubts about using direct seeding with large databases because log...
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SQL Server 2016 AlwaysOn: Direct seeding and backup considerations
As promised in my prior blog post, we’ll talk now about direct seeding feature and backups. We found an interesting LIMIT_CONCURRENT_BACKUPS value for current state of the...
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SQL Server AlwaysOn: new services packs and new diagnostic capabilities
As you certainly know, the SQL Server 2014 SP2 has been released by Microsoft with some interesting improvements that concern SQL Server AlwaysOn and availability groups feature. In fact, all of them...
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SQL Server AlwaysOn: troubleshooting improvements with new service packs
As promised in my latest blog, I will talk about improvements in the detection of the availability group replication latency. As a reminder, replication latency between high available replicas may be...
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SQL Server 2016 : Basic availability groups may fit to your HA needs
In this blog let’s talk about SQL Server and availability groups in standard Edition. I had some customer questions about existing limitations and this is a good opportunity to review them on this blog...
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SQL Server 2016: Distributed availability groups and Cross Cluster migration
How to migrate an environment that includes availability groups from one Windows Failover Cluster to another one? This scenario is definitely uncommon and requires a good preparation. How to achieve...
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SQL Server AlwaysOn – Distributed availability groups, read-only with...
This blog post comes from a very interesting discussion with one of my friends about the read-only capabilities of secondary replicas in the context of distributed availability groups. Initially,...
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SQL Server 2017 AlwaysOn AGs and new read-scale architectures
As you probably know Microsoft announced an official name for SQL Server vNext during the last Microsoft Data Amp event on April 19 2017. It becomes officially SQL Serve 2017. In my first blog post, I...
View ArticleSQL Server – Collecting last backup information in an AlwaysOn environment
Introduction Sometimes you face interesting challenges with unusual environment. One of my customer needed a automated and flexible backup solution. Said like that nothing very complex you will say....
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SQL Server AlwaysOn node “Add all eligible storage to the cluster”
I made a mistake recently when adding a new node to an existing Windows Failover Cluster supporting AlwaysOn SQL Server instances. When adding a new node using the GUI there’s this option checked by...
View ArticleAutomate CNOs and VCOs for SQL Server AAG
During the installation of a new SQL Server environment in a Project, we wanted to automate the whole process deployment and configuration when installing a new SQL Server Always On Availability Group...
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SQL Server 2016 AlwaysOn: Direct seeding and backup considerations
As promised in my prior blog post, we’ll talk now about direct seeding feature and backups. We found an interesting LIMIT_CONCURRENT_BACKUPS value for current state of the...
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SQL Server AlwaysOn: new services packs and new diagnostic capabilities
As you certainly know, the SQL Server 2014 SP2 has been released by Microsoft with some interesting improvements that concern SQL Server AlwaysOn and availability groups feature. In fact, all of them...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SQL Server AlwaysOn: troubleshooting improvements with new service packs
As promised in my latest blog, I will talk about improvements in the detection of the availability group replication latency. As a reminder, replication latency between high available replicas may be...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SQL Server 2016 : Basic availability groups may fit to your HA needs
In this blog let’s talk about SQL Server and availability groups in standard Edition. I had some customer questions about existing limitations and this is a good opportunity to review them on this blog...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SQL Server 2016: Distributed availability groups and Cross Cluster migration
How to migrate an environment that includes availability groups from one Windows Failover Cluster to another one? This scenario is definitely uncommon and requires a good preparation. How to achieve...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SQL Server AlwaysOn – Distributed availability groups, read-only with...
This blog post comes from a very interesting discussion with one of my friends about the read-only capabilities of secondary replicas in the context of distributed availability groups. Initially,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SQL Server 2017 AlwaysOn AGs and new read-scale architectures
As you probably know Microsoft announced an official name for SQL Server vNext during the last Microsoft Data Amp event on April 19 2017. It becomes officially SQL Serve 2017. In my first blog post, I...
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