Implementing SQL Server Failover Clustering in Azure virtual machines differs in several aspects from its on-premises implementations. These differences reflect some of the unique characteristics of the storage and network infrastructure services in the Microsoft cloud environment. In this article, Marcin Policht looks at the networking aspects of clustered deployments of SQL Server 2016 in Azure.
2017-10-11
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In this article, I’m going to talk an issue that I found when joining replica or database on secondary replica to availability group.
2020-01-31 (first published: 2017-04-17)
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In this article, I will show a procedure to isolate the replication traffic from the public network.
2017-04-10
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In this article, I will show you a procedure to combine SQL Server AlwaysOn with logshipping and to make log-shipping to work even in case of failovers between availability replicas in primary site.
2017-04-03
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2017-03-17
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In this edition of Office Hours, Brent, Erik, and Richie discuss AlwaysOn Availability Groups, execution plans, speeding up log shipping, applying wrong service packs, their favourite high availability solutions, and more.
2017-02-14
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2017-01-30
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A “multi-subnet” environment is defined when the OS cluster used as the backbone for AlwaysOn has server nodes that are located in multiple/different subnets. Deploying SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups requires a Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) cluster and each availability replica of a given availability group must reside on a different node of the same WSFC cluster. This post from Manvendra Singh will help you in configuring an HA and DR solution for SQL Server AlwaysOn in multi-subnet networks.
2017-01-13
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2017-01-02
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2016-12-16
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Next Monday, February 9, 2026, my one-day live online training SQL Server Query Tuning...
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Microsoft fixed the AVX instruction issue in SQL Server 2025 CU1. The container now...
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