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 […]
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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.
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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.
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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
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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 […]
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I run this code to connect to SQL Server 2022 from the command line.
sqlcmd -S localhost -EAt the command line, I run these two commands:
SELECT ORIGINAL_DB_NAME() GOWhat is returned? See possible answers