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 […]

The Curious Case of… very long failover times with a large ad hoc workload

In this case, the cause of the long failover time was enabling Query Store after upgrading, for a database with a large workload of ad hoc queries, meaning there was 100GB of Query Store data to load.

Building an AG

AlwaysOn AG Dashboard

The BAG Secondary

SQL Server 2016 Availability Group - Automatic Seeding with SSMS 17.x

In SQL Server 2016 the availability group automatic seeding functionality is implemented. This article will detail the steps to use of SSMS with automatic seeding and its limitations.

TDE with Automatic Database Seeding

Transparent Data Encryption on an Availability Group and Automatic Database Seeding

Add a SQL Server Database to an Existing Always On Availability Group

In this tip, Manvendra Singh will cover how to add another database to an existing Always On Availability Group.

Automatic Database Seeding

Set up and use the automatic databases seeding feature for Availability Groups.

SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups Using an Azure Template

There is already a template on the Azure marketplace for setting up an AlwaysOn Availability Group. In just a few easy steps you can get a working AlwaysOn Availability Group setup, configured and running - this post describes the steps to quickly set it up.