Enabling/Configuring Read only routing

  • I have 2 servers which are part of AG. DB1(Primary) and DB2(Secondary). It has been setup like this for quite some time now but we don't have read routing enabled/configured. I went thru GUI and scripted out what I want to do. Couple of question related to my inquiry.

    Do I have to failover/reboot when I run my script on the primary server? Is there anything I should be looking out for before running the script?

    Looking at the AG property, readable secondary option is set to Yes for a secondary server.  Read-Only routing section is blank.

    USE [master]
    GO
    ALTER AVAILABILITY GROUP [AGName]
    MODIFY REPLICA ON
    N'DB1' WITH
    (
    SECONDARY_ROLE
    (
    READ_ONLY_ROUTING_URL = N'TCP://db1**********:1433'
    )
    )
    GO

    USE [master]
    GO
    ALTER AVAILABILITY GROUP [AGName]
    MODIFY REPLICA ON
    N'DB2' WITH
    (
    SECONDARY_ROLE
    (
    READ_ONLY_ROUTING_URL = N'TCP://db2*************:1433'
    )
    )
    GO

    ALTER AVAILABILITY GROUP [AGName]
    MODIFY REPLICA ON
    N'DB1' WITH
    (
    PRIMARY_ROLE
    (
    READ_ONLY_ROUTING_LIST = (N'DB2')
    )
    )
    GO
    ALTER AVAILABILITY GROUP [AGName]
    MODIFY REPLICA ON
    N'DB2' WITH
    (
    PRIMARY_ROLE
    (
    READ_ONLY_ROUTING_LIST = (N'DB1')
    )
    )
    GO

     

  • Before going down this road - what problem are you trying to resolve by enabling read-routing?  If you are having issues with select statements blocking writes there may be other options.

    I would not enable read-only routing unless - and only - if we were seeing IO related issues due to lots of reads.  That is - lots of statements that are read only and the system is IO bound.  For any other scenario there are better methods available to resolve the issues.

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