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.

What's the Cost of an Hour?

Outages can be expensive, and today Steve asks if you know just how expensive they are for your organization.

DR Priority

Today Steve asks about HA and DR. What compromises and choices do you make in your environment and how do you ensure your clients can get to their data.

MTTD

Achieving high availability is hard. Today Steve discusses the challenges of five nines of uptime.

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 […]

Configuring the distribution database in an Availability Group

Starting with SQL Server 2017 CU6 and SQL Server 2016 SP2-CU3, you can now configure your distribution database as part of an Availability Group (AG). I found one spot...

AG Backup Priority

High Availability and Disaster Recovery for Small Businesses

Too often in the past, High Availability and Disaster Recovery have been marketed as expensive choices for businesses with deep pockets. The truth is that, with careful planning, there are sensible and economic solutions for small businesses that can maintain business continuity when disaster strikes.

SQL Server Hybrid High Availability and Disaster Recovery

This article summarizes the factors to consider and provide an overview of various options for HA and DR in cloud based SQL Server deployments.

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