Migration Guide: Migrating to SQL Server 2012 Failover Clustering and Availability Groups from Prior Clustering and Mirroring Deployments

This paper provides guidance for customers who prior to SQL Server 2012 have deployed SQL Failover Clustering for local high availability and database mirroring for disaster recovery, and who want to migrate to SQL Server AlwaysOn. It describes the corresponding SQL Server AlwaysOn scenario and the migration paths to SQL Server AlwaysOn. It also contains the important knowledge and considerations that you must know in order to successfully migrate to a HADR solution based on SQL Server AlwaysOn technology, which implements AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instances for high availability and AlwaysOn Availability Groups for disaster recovery.

Serving Warm SSIS Errors

by Frank A. Banin

SQLServerCentral.com

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Delivering well formated SSIS Package errors through Emails.

Transfer Times in the Cloud

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

Today Steve Jones talks about a problem in the cloud computing world: getting your data back.

How to Connect to a SQL Server Named Instance

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My network admins have tightened down the network and while we were once able to connect to our named instances via MySQLServer\MyNamedInstance, we're now only able to connect if we specify the port. What happened and what do I need to tell them to fix the issue?

Wasting Time

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

Focusing in one area for long periods of time is hard. Steve Jones thinks that people taking a little time at work to recharge is a good idea, and something companies might want to encourage.

Generating Data for Database Tests

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It is more and more essential for developers to work on development databases that have realistic data in both type and quantity, but without using real data. It isn't exactly easy, even with third-party tools to hand. Phil Factor shows how it can be done, taking the classic PUBS database and giving it a more realistic set of data.

Certificates Everywhere

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

Today Steve Jones talks about security and his desire to have certificates be the primary means of securing communications and verifying authenticity.

Indexed Views In Non-Enterprise Editions of SQL Server

by Steve Knox

SQLServerCentral.com

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CAN you create AND USE an indexed view in non-Enterprise Editions of SQL Server?

Renaming a Published SQL Server Database

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I have transactional replication configured in production. I am wondering if we could rename the publication database in transactional replication without having to drop and recreate the replication set up. Also, is it possible to rename the database files of the publication database without affecting the replication configuration.