2024-06-21
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MSSQL Server AlwaysON: Get alerted for inconsistencies in logins, jobs and databases
This script will create the necessary login and linked servers on a given availability replica. Please ensure that the script is executed on all the replicas.
2022-02-22 (first published: 2022-01-25)
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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 […]
2020-08-25
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Deployment of SQL Server 2019 Always On Availability Groups on Azure AKS
Step through a demonstration illustrating a sample deployment of SQL Server 2019 Always On Availability Group cluster on Azure AKS. You'll discover how to leverage the Microsoft Azure-hosted managed Kubernetes service referred to as AKS.
2019-09-10
SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups Monitoring and Alerting - Part 2
In this tip we look at some additional scripts that you can use to monitor your SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups.
2018-12-18
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Configuring SQL Server Always on Azure Servers(Iaas)
Configuration of SQL Server Always on in Azure Virtual machines differs in multiple ways comparing with the on-premise Implementations. This article will help you to have a handy note to configure always on in Azure servers from a DBA perspective.
2020-09-04 (first published: 2018-12-06)
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2018-11-13
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Automatically Failover (Enable or Disable) Jobs Based on HADR Role
If you have a SQL Server with a High Availability solution (AlwaysOn Availability Groups, Database Mirroring, etc.), and you also have a bunch of jobs which you need to be run on the Primary server only. You need to be able to "failover" the jobs in case the Primary server is no longer Primary.
2018-11-14 (first published: 2018-11-12)
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Always On - Endpoint Ownership
Whoever creates an AlwaysOn group is, by default, the owner of the endpoint. This is generally not a problem…unless that person leaves the company and you need to delete the login.
2018-10-25
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Configure Read Only Routing
The advantage of Setting the readable secondary as Read-Intent Only will allow the secondary server to serve the read-only workload only if the connection string of the application contains Application Intent=Readonly parameter.
2018-02-05
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The Disabled Index
I run this code on SQL Server 2022.
CREATE TABLE Drink
(
drinkid INT NOT NULL
CONSTRAINT DrinkPK PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED,
drinkname VARCHAR(20),
rating NUMERIC(2, 1)
)
GO
INSERT INTO Drink
(
drinkid,
drinkname,
rating
)
VALUES
(1, 'Margarita', 4.5),
(2, 'Mojito', 4.3),
(3, 'Old Fashioned', 4.7),
(4, 'Martini', 4.4),
(5, 'Cosmopolitan', 4.2)
GO
ALTER INDEX drinkpk ON dbo.drink DISABLE
GO
SELECT * FROM dbo.Drink
GO
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