Availability groups

Prepare Failover Cluster for AG configuration

In this blog I will show you some important powershell commands to prepare a Failover Cluster for AG configuration. Please keep in mind, this is a test environment and I will not talk about firewall rules. Our objective is to(…)

When Read-Scale availability groups and Windows Failover Cluster are not good friends

A couple of days ago, with some fellow French data platform MVPS (@thesqlgrrrl and @Conseilit) we discussed an issue around Read-Scale(…)

Create a primary database using the backup of a standby database on 12cR2

The scope of this blog will be to show how to create a primary role database based on a backup of a standby database on 12cR2. Step1: We are assuming that an auxiliary instance has been created and started in(…)

Recover a corrupted datafile in your DataGuard environment 11G/12C.

On a DG environment, a datafile needs to be recovered on the STANDBY site, in two situations : when is deleted or corrupted. Below, I will explain  how to recover a corrupted datafile, in order to be able to(…)

Deploying SQL Server 2019 AGs on K8s with helm charts

This write-up follows my first article about helm chart with SQL Server. This time, I would like to cover the availability groups topic and how to deploy them with helm charts. In fact, to go(…)

SQL Server 2019 availability groups – Introduction to R/W redirection

writeThis is a second write-up about SQL Server 2019 CTP2.0 and availability group new features. This time the interesting one is about READRWRITE redirection capabilities. A couple of months ago, I wrote about SQL Server 2017 and(…)

SQL Server availability groups, SQL Browser and Shared Memory considerations

Few weeks ago, my colleagues and me discussed availability groups and network considerations for one of our customers including disabling SQL Browser service and shared memory protocol. The point was disabling both features may lead to unexpected behaviors when creating(…)

First steps into SQL Server 2019 availability groups on K8s

A couple of weeks ago, Microsoft announced the first public CTP version of next SQL Server version (CTP2). It is not a surprise, the SQL Server vNext becomes SQL Server 2019 and there are a plenty of(…)

24 HOP French edition 2017 – Session videos are available

The 2nd edition of 24HOP French Edition 2017 is over and we had great sessions about SQL Server and various topics ( SQL Server 2017 new features, Azure, PowerBI, High Availability , Linux, Hyper-convergence , Modeling …) If(…)

Prochaine édition des 24 HOP 2017 francophone

La prochaine édition du 24 Hours of PASS 2017 edition francophone se déroulera les 29-30 juin prochain. Pour rappel le format est simple: 24 webinars gratuits répartis sur 2 jours de 07:00 à 18h00 GMT et en(…)