Understanding Windows Server Cluster Quorum Options

If you're deploying SQL Server, you are likely running business-critical applications on it and you need to ensure it's protected from downtime and data loss.

Three Mile Island And Your Databases

Grant takes a few lessons for database DR from a nuclear accident in the US.

Choosing Business Continuity Options

Your MTTR

There are a lot of metrics you can track and many ways to use them to improve how you build and manage software. Steve has a few thoughts on MTTR and similar metrics.

Do *not* place TEMPDB on a local disk in a SQL failover cluster

What happens with tempdb on a local disk in a cluster? Read on to see that you will not get a failover if the local disk fails

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 […]

Keeping Availability Group Logins in sync automatically

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SQL SERVER – Drop failed for Availability Group – Failed to Destroy the Windows Server Failover Clustering Group Corresponding to Availability Group

While working with one of the clients to recover from a disaster, I encountered an error. In this blog we would talk about error Drop failed for Availability Group....