2020-09-21 (first published: 2020-08-25)
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Availability Group (AG)
Adding a Database with Polybase External Tables to Always On Availability Group
Learn how to ensure your PolyBase objects are accessible from all nodes in an Availability Group.
2020-05-26
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Have You Deployed an Availability Group?
Learning about the Availability Group technology can be valuable for your career. Today Steve asks if you've deployed one, and if not, perhaps you want to try.
2024-03-11 (first published: 2020-04-03)
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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 […]
2019-07-02
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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.
2019-05-31
2018-11-15
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2018-07-16
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2018-06-11
783 reads
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.
2018-03-27
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TDE with Automatic Database Seeding
Transparent Data Encryption on an Availability Group and Automatic Database Seeding
2018-03-08
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Blogs
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The Decoded Value
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned from this code:
DECLARE @message VARCHAR(50) = 'Hello SQL Server 2025!'; DECLARE @encoded VARCHAR(MAX); SET @encoded = BASE64_ENCODE(CAST(@message AS VARBINARY(1000))); SELECT BASE64_DECODE(@encoded)See possible answers