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.

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 […]

Nothing on My Laptop

Being able to recover from disasters is important to most of us.

Basic Availability Groups

What's the Quarantine state in Windows Failover Clusters

In this article we cover why Windows Failover Cluster nodes can go into a quarantined state, how to resolve this as well as how to set threshold values for this cluster node state.

Improving Availability Groups

Availability Groups are a good way to use High Availability in SQL Server, Today Steve wonders if you have any improvements you would make to the technology.

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

Steps for Installing AlwaysOn Availability Groups - SQL 2019

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 […]

Non AG Aware

Make SQL Server Agent Jobs HADR Aware

Introduction Always On Availability Groups (AGs/AG...