Availability Group (AG)

SQLServerCentral Article

Add a Second NIC for an Availability Group to Separate Network Traffic

  • Article

Introduction Sometimes we face the scenario in an enterprise environment that the database in SQL Server Always On Availability Group (AOAG) has high concurrency read and write access from application servers. If we keep using the one network interface card for both network traffic of database connections from application servers and database mirroring between AOAG […]

(5)

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2025-09-01 (first published: )

6,040 reads

Technical Article

Always On Availability Groups Troubleshooting and Monitoring Guide

  • Article

This guide helps you get started on troubleshooting some of the common issues in AlwaysOn Availability Groups and monitoring AlwaysOn Availability Groups. It is intended to provide original content as well as a landing page of useful information that is already published elsewhere.

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2024-01-09 (first published: )

SQLServerCentral Article

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

  • Article

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 […]

(1)

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2021-05-17

9,936 reads

SQLServerCentral Article

Steps for Installing AlwaysOn Availability Groups - SQL 2019

  • Article

With SQL Server 2012 Microsoft introduced the AlwaysOn Availability Group feature, and since then many changes and improvements have been made.  This article is an update to another article, and will cover the prerequisites and steps for installing AlwaysOn in your SQL Server 2019 environment. Prerequisites Before implementing your AlwaysOn Availability Group (AG), make sure […]

(2)

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2020-12-07

152,654 reads

Blogs

Are you getting value from your reporting?

By

Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...

The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central

By

It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...

Git forked

By

Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...

Read the latest Blogs

Forums

Microsoft Security Changes and SQL Server

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Microsoft Security Changes and SQL...

Expanding into Print

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Expanding into Print

Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem

By Chandan Shukla

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Downtime Caused by the Postgres...

Visit the forum

Question of the Day

The String Distance I

In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:

SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
Assume preview features are enabled.

See possible answers